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 FONTAINEBeware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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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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But the shortest works are always the best.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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