Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs more than a secret.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I bend but do not break.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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