In this world we must help one another.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo favor can win gratitude from a cat.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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