Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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