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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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