I bend and do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFrom a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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