Jean de La Fontaine Quotes - Page 2

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• Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Perseverance, Persistence, Brutes

  Jean de La Fontaine, James Michie (1979). “La Fontaine: Selected”, Viking Adult

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• Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Greatness, Wealth, Prosperity

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• The worst time is always the present.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Worst Times, Worst

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• Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Lying, Men, Fire

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• 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.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Two, May, Said

  "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, V. 3, p. 75, 1988.

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• Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Flattery, Expenses, Flatterer

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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• I bend, but I do not break.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Break

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• If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Cows, Wells

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• Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Skins, Bears, Beast

  "Fables (Book V)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• Let fools the studious despise,
  There's nothing lost by being wise.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Wise, Knowledge, Fool

  Jean de La Fontaine (1853). “The Fables of La Fontaine”, p.187

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• Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fear, Faults, Shame

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• The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Danger, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

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• A hungry stomach cannot hear.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Hungry, Stomach

  "Fables". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, Book IX, fable 18, 1668 - 1679.

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• People who make no noise are dangerous.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  People, Silence, Noise

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• What God does, He does well.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  God, Doe, Wells

  Jean de la Fontaine (2013). “The Complete Fables of La Fontaine: A New Translation in Verse”, p.277, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• No path of flowers leads to glory.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Flower, Path, Glory

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book X". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1919.

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• Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Violence, Succeed, Gentleness

  "Fables", VI, 3, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 311, 1922.

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• Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Temptation, Victory, Tears

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• He knows the universe and does not know himself.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Knowledge, Doe, Knows

  Jean de La Fontaine (1965). “The best fables”

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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.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Numbers, Long

  "Fables", VIII. 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 695-96, 1922.

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• Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman.
  [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent;
  Nous ne ferions rien avec grace:
  Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse,
  Ne saurit passer pour galant.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Grace, Gentleman, May

  "Fables", IV. 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 777, 1922.

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• In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Ducks, Littles, Trouble

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• By the work one knows the workman.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Work, Army

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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