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We risk all in being too greedy.

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
Greediness
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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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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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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I bend but do not break.
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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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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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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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