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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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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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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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