Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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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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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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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The sign brings customers.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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