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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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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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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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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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