It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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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I bend, but I do not break.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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I bend and do not break.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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