One returns to the place one came from.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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The worst time is always the present.
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