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In this world we must help one another.
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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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We are never content with our lot.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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