Better to suffer than to die.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDiversity, that is my motto.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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I bend and do not break.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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