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"34 Jean de La Fontaine Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 July 1621. Died: 13 April 1695 | Poet | Fabulist |

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Sadness Flies away Wings Time
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Nothing Weighs Heavily Secret
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Patience and time do more than force and rage.

Patience Time Force Rage
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Never Sell Killed Beast
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.

Death Wise man Surprise Ready
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
Find Destiny Roads Avoiding
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear

Hell Pleasure Haunted Fear
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Everyone Friend Fool Name
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Rare True Love Friendship
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Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
Everyone Believes Fears Desires
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Beware Live Judging Appearance
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Newspaper Owes Tribute Devil
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself

Best Plot Injure Man's
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life

Friendship Shadow Increases Life
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Man Soul Impossibilities Vanish
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In this world we must help one another.

World Must Help One another
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Power Love Truth People
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In everything one must consider the end.

Everything One Consider End
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By the work one knows the workman.

Work Knows Workman
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Pessimist Optimist Worse Better
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable

Dangerous Friend Discretion Enemy
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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.

Live Courageous Bold Art
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Half Today Better Tomorrow
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Better Living Begger Emperor
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.

Thing Possess Worth Future
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Sensible people find nothing useless

Sensible People Find Useless
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue

Love Victory Woman Virtue
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

Love Dominion Prudence
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Cheerful Mind Vigorous
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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.

Dreams Realities Man Truth
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No flowery road leads to glory

Flowery Road Leads Glory
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Imitators Slavish Fools Opinion
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.

Blind Fortune Pursues Rashness
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The sign brings customers

Sign Brings Customers
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Jean de La Fontaine Quotes & Sayings