It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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I bend and do not break.
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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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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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