Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Il faut, autant qu'on peut, obliger tout le monde:On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Bref, la fortune a toujours tort.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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L’enseigne fait la chalandise.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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In short, Luck's always to blame.
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One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.
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Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret.
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People must help one another; it is nature's law.
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A l'oeuvre on connaît l'artisan.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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On est bien fou de cerveauQui prétend contenter tout le monde et son père.
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'They are too green', he said, 'and only good for fools'.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: 'Each to the other we seem insane': Invicem insanire videmur. There is a never-ending duel between the two.