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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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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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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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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
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The strongest passion is fear.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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