A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEGentleness succeeds better than violence.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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I bend and do not break.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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We are never content with our lot.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Diversity, that is my 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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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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