We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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In this world we must help one another.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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