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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.

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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
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Diversity, that is my 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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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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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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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