It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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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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The sign brings customers.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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