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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
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French Moralist
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Gentleness
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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