Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENever sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The sign brings customers.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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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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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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