Quotes by La Fontaine, Jean De

"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   

"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."

La Fontaine, Jean De on discretion   

"Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."

La Fontaine, Jean De on faults   

"Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him."

La Fontaine, Jean De on flattery   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"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   

"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."

La Fontaine, Jean De on journalism and journalists   

"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
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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   

"Luck's always to blame."

La Fontaine, Jean De on luck   

"In short, luck's always to blame."

La Fontaine, Jean De on luck   

"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   

"By the work one knows the workmen."

La Fontaine, Jean De on quality   

"Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret."

La Fontaine, Jean De on secrets   

"He knows the universe and does not know himself."

La Fontaine, Jean De on knowledge   

"Help yourself, and Heaven will help you."

La Fontaine, Jean De on self-reliance   

"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   

"Still people are dangerous."

La Fontaine, Jean De on behavior   

"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."

La Fontaine, Jean De on belief   

"Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend."

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

La Fontaine, Jean De on death
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