Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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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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I bend and do not break.
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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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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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