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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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In this world we must help one another.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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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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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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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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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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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Still people are dangerous.
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