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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.

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
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Still people are dangerous.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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