It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIs not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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I bend and do not break.
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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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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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In this world we must help one another.
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