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Death never takes the wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.

Jean de la Fontaine

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La Fontaine, Jean. Fables Choisies [La Fontaine's Fables]. Paris: Chez Denys Thierry and Claude Barbin, 1678, bk. 8, no. 1.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Death and the Dying Man." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

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One reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves?

Madame de La Fayette [Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette]

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La Fayette, Madame de [published anonymously]. La Princesse de Cleves [The Princess of Cleves]. 1678, pt. 4.

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La Fayette, Madame de. The Princesse de Cleves, translated by Terence Cave. Oxford University Press, 1992, pt. 4.

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or feign it where it does not.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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