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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
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French Moralist
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
Jean de La Fontaine
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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
Jean de La Fontaine
Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
Jean de La Fontaine
We are never content with our lot.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
