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Sunday, 6 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." (Congreve, William - Joy)

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Browse Quotations by La Fontaine, Jean De

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Still people are dangerous.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.


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