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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Haunted
Hell
Pleasure
Fear

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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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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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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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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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