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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
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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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I bend but do not break.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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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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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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