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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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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I bend but do not break.
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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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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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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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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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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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