Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs more than a secret.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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I bend but do not break.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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