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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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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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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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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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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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