In this world we must help one another.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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I bend but do not break.
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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 twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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What God does, He does well.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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