A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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I bend but do not break.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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