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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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
Lying
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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I bend but do not break.
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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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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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Still people are dangerous.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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