We are never content with our lot.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo path of flowers leads to glory.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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I bend and do not break.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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