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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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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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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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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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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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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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