Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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I bend and do not break.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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