Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThere is no road of flowers leading to glory.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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