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One returns to the place one came from.
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
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I bend but do not break.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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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 like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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