Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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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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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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