A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything we ought to look at the end.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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The worst time is always the present.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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I bend and do not break.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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