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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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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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I bend but do not break.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Still people are dangerous.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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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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