What God does, He does well.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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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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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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