There is no road of flowers leading to glory. ― Jean de La Fontaine.
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
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1. Patience and time do more than strength or passion. ― Jean de La Fontaine
2. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ― Jean de La Fontaine
3. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ― Jean de La Fontaine
4. Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ― Jean de La Fontaine
5. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ― Jean de La Fontaine
6. Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast. ― Jean de La Fontaine
7. Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. ― Jean de La Fontaine
8. Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. ― Jean de La Fontaine
9. Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. ― Jean de La Fontaine
10. Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. ― Jean de La Fontaine
11. It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ― Jean de La Fontaine
12. People who make no noise are dangerous. ― Jean de La Fontaine
13. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. ― Jean de La Fontaine
14. It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father. ― Jean de La Fontaine
15. Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. ― Jean de La Fontaine
16. Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. ― Jean de La Fontaine
17. Neither wealth or greatness render us happy. ― Jean de La Fontaine
18. A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. ― Jean de La Fontaine
19. Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. ― Jean de La Fontaine
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20. A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. ― Jean de La Fontaine
21. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ― Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
22. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ― Benjamin Franklin
23. You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret is to press play. ― Jay Asher
24. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear. ― Edmond Rostand
25. Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. ― William Goldman
26. And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. ― Roald Dahl
27. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter, they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. ― Sylvia Plath
28. Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. ― China Miéville
29. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ― John Wooden