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Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Jean de La Fontaine
Skin
Terror
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Friendship
Life
Evening
Shadow
Sun
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
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Heaven
Help
Will
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Fear
Cure
Faults
Shame
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Friend
Fool
Name
Nothing
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
Fear
Desire
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Evil
Tribute
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death
Man
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine
Work
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine
Men
Appearance
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine
Living
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
Love
Power
Truth
People
Virtue
Abuse
Will
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Greatness
Wealth
People who make no noise are dangerous.
Jean de La Fontaine
People
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship
Love