Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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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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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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