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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
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French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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