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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
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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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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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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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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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We are never content with our lot.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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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 become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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