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• Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine
• Je plie et ne romrs pas. (I bend and do not break.) -- Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
• 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...
• By the work one knows the workman. -- J.
  de La Fontaine (1621-1695) -- The Hornets and the Bees, Book i, Fable 21...
• Help thyself, and God will help thee. -- J. de La Fontaine (1621-1695) -- Book vi, Fable 18
• In everything one must consider the end. -- J.
  de La Fontaine (1621-1695) -- The Fox and the Gnat, Book iii, Fable 5...
• It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. -- J.
  de La Fontaine (1621-1695) -- The Cock and the Fox, Book ii, Fable 15...
• No path of flowers leads to glory. -- J.
  de La Fontaine (1621-1695) -- The Use of Knowledge, Book x, Fable 14...
• The fly of the coach. -- J. de La Fontaine (1621-1695) -- Book vii, Fable 9