Jean de La Fontaine

• "By the work one knows the workman.“
• "It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.“
• "Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.“
• "Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.“
• "Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.“
• "The strongest passion is fear.“
• "We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.“
• "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.“
• "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.“
• "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.“
• "Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.“
• "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.“
• "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.“
• "Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.“
• "People must help one another it is nature's law.“
• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion.“
• "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.“
• "Sadness flies away on the wings of time.“
• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion.“
• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion.“
• "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.“
• "By the work one knows the workman.“

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