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More Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
In everything one must consider the end.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
We risk all in being too greedy.
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.