Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

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  Fate, Destiny, Journey

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  Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

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  Strength, Patience, Passion

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• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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  Men, Judging People, Long

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• All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

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  Fashion, Stupidity, Brain

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• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

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  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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• It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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  Lying, Hype, Deception

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• Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

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  Secret

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• What God does, He does well.

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  God, Doe, Wells

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

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  Friendship, Life And Love, Enemy

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• Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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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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  Life, Art, Gay

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• A hungry stomach cannot hear.

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  Hungry, Stomach

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• We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

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  Innocence, Innocent, Unfortunate

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• Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

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  Men, Numbers, Long

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• He knows the universe and does not know himself.

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  Knowledge, Doe, Knows

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• Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

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  Temptation, Victory, Tears

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• Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Believe

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• Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

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  Skins, Lioness, Lions

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• The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

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  Danger, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

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• By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

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  Strength, Patience, Time

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• The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.

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  Heart, Victory, Conquer

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• Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

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  Knowledge, Gnats, Example

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• Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

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  Destiny, Avoiding, Has Beens

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• Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

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  Speech, Scandal, Used

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