If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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