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I bend but do not break.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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