By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe strongest passion is fear.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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The sign brings customers.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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