Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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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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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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The sign brings customers.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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