Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knows the universe and does not know himself.
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I bend but do not break.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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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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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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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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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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