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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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
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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.
Jean de La Fontaine
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
Jean de La Fontaine
The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
Jean de La Fontaine
The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
Jean de La Fontaine
Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
Jean de La Fontaine
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
Jean de La Fontaine
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
Jean de La Fontaine
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.
Jean de La Fontaine
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
Jean de La Fontaine
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
Jean de La Fontaine
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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.
Jean de La Fontaine
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
Jean de La Fontaine
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean de La Fontaine
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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