In everything we ought to look at the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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In this world we must help one another.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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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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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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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