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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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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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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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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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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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