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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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One returns to the place one came from.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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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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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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