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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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
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Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Strength
Never
Time
Sever
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Rage
Patience
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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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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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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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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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