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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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I bend but do not break.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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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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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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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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.
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