We ought to consider the end in everything.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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