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Jean De La Fontaine Inspirational Quotes (86)

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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I bend but do not break.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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