Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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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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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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I bend and do not break.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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The worst time is always the present.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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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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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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