In short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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The worst time is always the present.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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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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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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