What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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We are never content with our lot.
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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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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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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Still people are dangerous.
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