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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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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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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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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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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