Jean de La Fontaine Quotes - Page 5

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• It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Boyfriend, Daughter, Father

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

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• We ought to consider the end in everything.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Ends, Ought

  "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, III. 5, March 31, 1668.

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• Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
  [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Suits, Blind, Fortune

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• Nothing weighs more than a secret.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Secret

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• The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
  [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,
  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Satisfaction, Unfortunate, Fastidious

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• Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Patience, Fonts, Rage

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• Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
  [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
  Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Wise, Ignorance, Ignorant

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• We believe no evil till the evil's done

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Believe, Evil, Done

  Jean de La Fontaine (1860). “Fables”, p.19

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• We heed no instincts but our own.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Instinct, Miscellaneous, Heed

  Jean de La Fontaine (1843). “Fables”, p.58

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• As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
  [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fowl, Foxes, Captured

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• He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Knowledge, Universe

  "Fables", VIII. 26, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 419-23, 1922.

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• The strongest passion is fear.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Passion, Strongest

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• 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.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Long, Judging, Appearance

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• In short, luck's always to blame.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Luck, Blame

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book V". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1688.

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• 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.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• Sensible people find nothing useless.
  [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  People, Useless, Sensible

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• To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Winning, Race, Swiftness

  Jean de la Fontaine (2014). “Illustrated Tales”, p.5, FV Éditions

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• But the shortest works are always the best.

  Jean de La Fontaine

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• Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
  [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Eye, Criticism, Moles

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• A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cities, Paris, Mountain

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• Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Friendship, Wise

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

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• Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
  [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  May, Affair, Prudence

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• The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Unfortunate, Fastidious

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

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• Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Suffering, Motto

  Fables I, 'La Mort et le Bucheron'

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• I bend but do not break.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Break

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

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