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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.


Jean De La Fontaine

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Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
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KELLY JONES Patience and time do more than force and rage.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ¿ la claire fontaine. You see the world as children are forming.
JOELLE DUMAS By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
JOHN RUSKIN Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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HERMANN HESSE La seguridad de la Fe vence a la duda de la Razón.
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PAUL VALERY Power without abuse loses its charm.
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THEOPHILE GAUTIER Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE He knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Still people are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In short, luck's always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what sh...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE One returns to the place one came from.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE By the work one knows the workmen.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. [Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In my end is my beginning.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cer...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la me...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon a...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple es...
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodl...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. [Fr., Tous ch...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Rome was not built in a day.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is no road of flowers leading to glory
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE 'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We become innocent when we are unfortunate. [Fr., On devient innocent quand on est malheureux.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise."
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A wise enemy is worth more.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In everything one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The sign brings customers
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE They are too green, he said, and only good for boobies.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A person often meets his destiny in the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In this world we must help one another.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE I bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It's a double pleasure to trick the trickster.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE It is double pleasing to trick the trickster.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE This fellow did not see further than his own nose.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The greatest ass of the three is not the one you would think.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We believe no evil till the evil's done
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE In all matters one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speech afterwards.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The ant is no lender; that is the least of her faults.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Better a living beggar than a buried emperor
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE I bend and do not break
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Let us not be so difficult; the most accommodating are the cleverest.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE A hungry stomach cannot hear
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE There is nothing useless to men of sense
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Help thyself and Heaven will help thee
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE But the shortest works are always the best.
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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE People must help one another; it is nature's law.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Love and friendship exclude each other.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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