I bend but do not break.
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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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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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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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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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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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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