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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. — Jacques Delille

Poem

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

In the original French

Le sort fait les parens, le choix fait les amis.

Jacques Delille
1803
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Friends and familyFriendsFamily
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Poem
Time
1803
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Jacques Delille
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Delille, Jacques. La Pitié, poeme en quatre chants. Brunswick: F. Vieweg, c. 1804, canto 1.

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