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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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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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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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