Better to suffer than to die.
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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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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 returns to the place one came from.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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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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