One returns to the place one came from.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe risk all in being too greedy.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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What God does, He does well.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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