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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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