Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHabit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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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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