Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

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

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We heed no instincts but our own.

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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

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

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