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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.

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
Without
Courageous
Life
Gay
Trust
Recklessly
Show
Fatalism
Living
Boisterous
Art
Resignation
Shows
Bold
Live
Cheerful

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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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In this world we must help one another.
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