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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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I bend but do not break.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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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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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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