Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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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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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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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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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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What God does, He does well.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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