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More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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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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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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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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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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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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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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I bend and do not break.
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