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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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
Lawyer
Playwright
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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I bend but do not break.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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 believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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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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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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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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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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