It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter to suffer than to die.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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I bend but do not break.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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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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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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