A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe argument of the strongest is always the best.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We are never content with our lot.
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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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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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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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