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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
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Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Rare
Friendship
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Love
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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I bend but do not break.
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Still people are dangerous.
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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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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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