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Category: Jean de La Fontaine

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

By the work one knows the workman.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

People must help one another it is nature’s law.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

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.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

The strongest passion is fear.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

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