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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Destiny
Often
Find
Roads
Avoiding

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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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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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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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