The worst time is always the present.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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