A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. - Jean de La Fontaine

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Love is a cruel conqueror.
Happy is he who knows him through stories
And not by his blows!

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Le fabricateur souverain
nous créa besaciers tous de même manière,
tant ceux du temps passé que du temps d’aujourd’hui :
Il fit pour nos défauts la poche de derrière,
Et celle de devant pour les défauts d’autrui.

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Habit,to which all of us are more or less slaves.

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