La Fontaine, Jean De
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La Fontaine, Jean De
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Greatness
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Discretion
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Deception
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
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Detail
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Journalism and Journalists
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death and Dying
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Giving
One returns to the place one came from.
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Home
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friends and Friendship
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Flattery
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Friends and Friendship
Luck s always to blame.
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Luck
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
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Inferiority
In short, luck s always to blame.
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Luck
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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Life and Living
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Self-reliance
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
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Patience
Rather suffer than die is man s motto.
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Suffering
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
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Soul
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Self-knowledge
By the work one knows the workmen.
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Quality
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Secrets
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Argument
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Attitude
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Faults
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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Achievement
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Belief
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Appearance
Still people are dangerous.
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Behavior
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
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Danger