22 quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

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Jean de La Fontaine

Thought and Reason
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
4.3 · 61 votes · 65 reads
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Feelings
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
3.8 · 15 votes · 9 reads
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Various
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
4.5 · 57 votes · 79 reads
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Virtues
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
4.6 · 53 votes · 31 reads
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Feelings
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
3.5 · 33 votes · 8 reads
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Thought and Reason
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
5.0 · 53 votes · 120 reads
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Virtues
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
3.1 · 14 votes · 183 reads
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Feelings
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
4.8 · 33 votes · 161 reads
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Feelings
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
3.2 · 62 votes · 187 reads
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Various
One returns to the place one came from.
5.0 · 34 votes · 114 reads
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Virtues
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
4.3 · 12 votes · 99 reads
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Feelings
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
3.1 · 10 votes · 189 reads
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Feelings
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
3.5 · 27 votes · 188 reads
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Various
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
4.2 · 34 votes · 196 reads
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Nature
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.
4.9 · 39 votes · 120 reads
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Various
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
3.1 · 37 votes · 31 reads
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Various
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
4.8 · 63 votes · 102 reads
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