To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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The sign brings customers.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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I bend and do not break.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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