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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
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Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Patience
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Never
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Rage
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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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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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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I bend but do not break.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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