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.
More Quotes from Jean de La Fontaine:
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.Jean de La Fontaine
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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And such our solemn promises, to-day.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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At present love is little more than name:
In matrimony, gold's the only aim.
Jean De La Fontaine
Are we not brothers in adventure, pray?
Jean De La Fontaine
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