By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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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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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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