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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
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French Moralist
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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We are never content with our lot.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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One returns to the place one came from.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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