People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBy the work one knows the workman.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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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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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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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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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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