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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
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French Moralist
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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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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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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