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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
J. de La Fontaine
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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I bend but do not break.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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In this world we must help one another.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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