By the work one knows the workman.
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Jean de La Fontaine
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About Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Jean de La FontaineAnyone 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.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
People must help one another it is nature's law.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
The strongest passion is fear.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
By the work one knows the workman.