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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
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Friendship
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I bend but do not break.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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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.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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