Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPatience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Still people are dangerous.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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