It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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We are never content with our lot.
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I bend and do not break.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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The worst time is always the present.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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