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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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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In this world we must help one another.
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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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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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