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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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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