One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend, but I do not break.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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