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Jean de La Fontaine
 
Nationality:   French
 
Date of Birth:   Jul 8, 1621
 
Date of Death:   Apr 13,  1695
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
 
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
 
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
 
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
 
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
 
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
 
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Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
 
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
 
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In short, Luck's always to blame.
 
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
 
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One returns to the place one came from.
 
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
 
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
 
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One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
 
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