In short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I bend but do not break.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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What God does, He does well.
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A 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.
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