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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
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Persistence
Perseverance
Patience
Anger
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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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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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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