Top 100 Jean De La Fontaine Quotes
#1. Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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#3. 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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#9. Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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#11. To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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#12. One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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#15. All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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#17. It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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#21. Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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#26. Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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#28. Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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#32. O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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#38. Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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#40. Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
[Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
Que les imitateurs.]
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#41. One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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#42. Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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#44. Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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#49. What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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#51. We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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#56. Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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#57. Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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#58. La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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#60. Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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#61. The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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#63. Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
[Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres,
Ne lui font changer de manieres.]
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#66. All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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#67. Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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#72. How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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#73. To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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#76. 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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#77. He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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#80. 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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#81. Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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#83. Such gluttony second to none
Almost ended fatally
When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate
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#85. Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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#88. 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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#90. Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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#91. 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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#92. Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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#93. Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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