“In everything one must consider the end.”

— Jean De La Fontaine

En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.
Book III (1668), fable 5 (The Fox and the Gnat).
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En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.

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French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621–1695

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