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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
Fabulist
French Moralist
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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