All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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The sign brings customers.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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