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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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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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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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I bend but do not break.
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