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Jean de La Fontaine Quotes: Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
         

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


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



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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.



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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.



Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.



Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.



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

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



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

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



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

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



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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.





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