O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEO tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEO love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWhat God does, He does well.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESocrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBut a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo 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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