Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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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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