Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPatience and time do more than strength or passion.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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I bend but do not break.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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