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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
Pleasure
Fear
Haunted
Hell
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We are never content with our lot.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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I bend but do not break.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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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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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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