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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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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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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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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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In this world we must help one another.
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I bend but do not break.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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