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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
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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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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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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In this world we must help one another.
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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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