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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHabit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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The worst time is always the present.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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