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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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 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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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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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
Jean de La Fontaine
We risk all in being too greedy.
Jean de La Fontaine
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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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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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
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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Better to suffer than to die.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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