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Fabulist Inspirational Quotes (606)

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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
Jean de La Fontaine
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First impressions are always unreliable.
Franz Kafka
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I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.
Franz Kafka
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
Jean de La Fontaine
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
Franz Kafka
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For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.
Franz Kafka
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Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
Marie de France
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
Jean de La Fontaine
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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
Franz Kafka
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You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.
Aesop
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One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.
Aesop
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The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'
Aesop
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The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.
Aesop
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What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.
Aesop
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To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.
Aesop
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Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.
Aesop
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Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
Aesop
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Every man should be content to mind his own business.
Aesop
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Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.
Aesop
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Do nothing without regard to the consequences.
Aesop
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The value is in the worth, not in the number.
Aesop
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Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.
Aesop
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If words suffice not, blows must follow.
Aesop
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Don't cry over spilt milk.
Aesop
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