No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAnyone 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.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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