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

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  Fate, Journey, Destiny

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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  Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

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  Fashion, Stupidity, Brain

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• Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

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  Friendship, Life And Love, Enemy

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678-1679.

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• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Fables (Book VIII)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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

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  Men, Judging People, Long

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

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  Friendship, Birthday, Memories

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• Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

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  Secret

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678-1679.

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• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

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  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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• Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

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  Destiny, Avoiding, Has Beens

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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.

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  Life, Art, Gay

  "From Grandmother with Love". Book by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, 2005.

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• What God does, He does well.

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  God, Doe, Wells

  Jean de la Fontaine (2013). “The Complete Fables of La Fontaine: A New Translation in Verse”, p.277, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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  Lying, Hype, Deception

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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

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  Death, Wise, Men

  'Fables' bk. 8 (1678-9) 'La Mort et le Mourant'.

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• Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

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  Half, Today, Tomorrow

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• Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

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  Skins, Lioness, Lions

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book V". Book by C. Robertson, 1668.

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• Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

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  Speech, Scandal, Used

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• A hungry stomach cannot hear.

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  Hungry, Stomach

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• Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

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  Talent

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• The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

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  Danger, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

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• Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

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  Temptation, Victory, Tears

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• Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

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  Men, Numbers, Long

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• By the work one knows the workman.

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  Inspirational, Work, Army

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• He knows the universe and does not know himself.

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  Knowledge, Doe, Knows

  Jean de La Fontaine (1965). “The best fables”

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