Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I bend and do not break.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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To 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.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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