We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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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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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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In this world we must help one another.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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