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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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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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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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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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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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