Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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I bend but do not break.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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