All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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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.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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