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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
Jean de la Fontaine
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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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.
Jean de La Fontaine
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine
Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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