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Diversity, that is my motto.

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
Motto
Variety
Diversity

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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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 risk all in being too greedy.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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