Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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