To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend, but I do not break.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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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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I bend, but I do not break.
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