To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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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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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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