Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe worst time is always the present.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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What God does, He does well.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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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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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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