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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

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
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Persistence
Perseverance
Patience
Anger
Strength
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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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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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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I bend but do not break.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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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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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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