Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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I bend and do not break.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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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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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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