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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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
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Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Secret
Nothing
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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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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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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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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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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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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In this world we must help one another.
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