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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Today
Better
Tomorrow
Half

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One returns to the place one came from.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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I bend but do not break.
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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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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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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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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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