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Jean de La Fontaine

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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.


— Jean de La Fontaine


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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.


— Jean de La Fontaine


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


— Jean de La Fontaine


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


— Jean de La Fontaine


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


— Jean de La Fontaine


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


— Jean de La Fontaine


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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.


— Jean de La Fontaine


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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.


— Jean de La Fontaine


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


— Jean de La Fontaine


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


— Jean de La Fontaine


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About Jean de La Fontaine

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Did you know about Jean de La Fontaine?

Both sides of his family were of the highest provincial middle class; though they were not noble his father was fairly wealthy. His later contemporaries helped to swell the tale and the 18th century finally accepted it including the anecdotes of his meeting his son being told who he was and remarking Ah yes I thought I had seen him somewhere! of his insisting on fighting a duel with a supposed admirer of his wife and then imploring him to visit at his house just as before; of his going into company with his stockings wrong side out &c. Astronomers named the asteroid 5780 Lafontaine in his honor upon the 300th anniversary of his birth.

Jean de La Fontaine (IPA: [ʒɑ̃ də la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was the most famous 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 and in French regional languages.

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