Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: 'Each to the other we seem insane': Invicem insanire videmur. There is a never-ending duel between the two.

Jean de La Fontaine

World
God

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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

Warren Farrell
- Men
- Different
- Women
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

D. B. Weiss
- People
- Create
- Go
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Baltasar Gracian
- Single
- Integrity
- Lie
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Victor Hugo
- Something
- Almost
- Reveal
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Jack Nicholson
- Time
- Love
- Success
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

Octavio Paz
- World
- Man
- Mirror