Lies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPatience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knows the universe and does not know himself.
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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs more than a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA bluejay in peacock feathers.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBeware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything we ought to look at the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEO love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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