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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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Patience
Anger
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More quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Jean de La Fontaine
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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.
Jean de La Fontaine
Better to suffer than to die.
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