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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBlind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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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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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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