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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Diversity, that is my motto.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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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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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Jean de La Fontaine
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
Jean de La Fontaine
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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