Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe are never content with our lot.
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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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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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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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