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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
Anger
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Brutes
Persistence
Perseverance
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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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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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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