A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBut every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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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.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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