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«Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | Keywords: dangerous, enemy, ignorant, preferred, preferring
«Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | About: Power, Trust | Keywords: abuse, abuse of power, animated, animates, entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, if not, prince
«The sign brings customers»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | Keywords: bringing up, brings, bring on, customers, sign, signing, sign in, sign on, sign over, sign up
«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»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | Keywords: Art of Living, being bold, boisterous, bold, bolder, boldest, cheerful, courageous, fatalism, gay, gays, gay and, lightheartedly, recklessly, resignation, resignations, the art
«Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | Keywords: continually, cure, faults, neither, repeats, shame, shamed, shames, shaming
«Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | About: Appearance | Keywords: appearance, beware, judging, outward
«Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | Keywords: ass, dressed, far and wide, lion, skin, spread, terror, wide
«It is impossible to please all the world and one's father»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | About: Family
«Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | Keywords: beast, killed, sell, skin, The Bear, The Beast
«To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine (Poet) | About: Race | Keywords: dart, darted, darting, swiftness
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