Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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I bend but do not break.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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