A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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I bend, but I do not break.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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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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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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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