Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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I bend and do not break.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Still people are dangerous.
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