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

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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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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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 double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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