All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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The sign brings customers.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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