Better to suffer than to die.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAs sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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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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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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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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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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