O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAn author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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