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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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I bend but do not break.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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