Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt 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.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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I bend and do not break.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Still people are dangerous.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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