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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Anand Thakur
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 FONTAINEWe believe no evil till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEToo many expedients may spoil an affair.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne often has need of one inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn this world we must help one another.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe worst time is always the present.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELearn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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