Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Anand Thakur
Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe believe no evil till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIs not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople must help one another; it is nature’s law.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELearn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHelp yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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