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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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