A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPatience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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In this world we must help one another.
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I bend and do not break.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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