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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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