Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter to suffer than to die.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Better to suffer than to die.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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In this world we must help one another.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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