Sensible people find nothing useless.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBy time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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We are never content with our lot.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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