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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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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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