"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Deception
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"The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Detail
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Discretion
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"Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Faults
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"Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Flattery
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Friends and Friendship
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"We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Giving
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Achievement
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"Neither wealth or greatness render us happy."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Greatness
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"One returns to the place one came from."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Home
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"One often has need of one, inferior to himself."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Inferiority
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"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Journalism and Journalists
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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."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Life and Living
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"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Appearance
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"The argument of the strongest is always the best."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Argument
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"Luck's always to blame."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Luck
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"In short, luck's always to blame."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Luck
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"Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Patience
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"A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Attitude
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"By the work one knows the workmen."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Quality
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"Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Secrets
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"He knows the universe and does not know himself."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Self-knowledge
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"Help yourself, and Heaven will help you."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Self-reliance
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"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish"

La Fontaine, Jean De on Soul
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"Rather suffer than die is man's motto."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Suffering
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"Still people are dangerous."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Behavior
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"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Belief
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"Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Danger
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"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Death and Dying
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