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Better to suffer than to die.

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
Suffer
Dies
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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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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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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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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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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