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Quotes of Jean De La Fontaine (Usa)1893-1983 American Feminist Writer
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy. (greatness)
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. (discretion)
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (deception)
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. (detail)
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. (journalism and journ)
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. (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. (giving)
One returns to the place one came from. (home)
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. (friends and friendsh)
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. (flattery)
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. (friends and friendsh)
One often has need of one, inferior to himself. (inferiority)
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. (life and living)
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you. (self-reliance)
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury. (patience)
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish (soul)
He knows the universe and does not know himself. (self-knowledge)
By the work one knows the workmen. (quality)
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. (secrets)
The argument of the strongest is always the best. (argument)
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. (attitude)
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. (faults)
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. (achievement)
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. (belief)
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. (appearance)
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