We ought to consider the end in everything.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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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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The worst time is always the present.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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