A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFoxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA bluejay in peacock feathers.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo path of flowers leads to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs more than a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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