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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
Roads
Avoiding
Destiny
Often
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Still people are dangerous.
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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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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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In this world we must help one another.
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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