Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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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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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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