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Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

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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Ample
Dies
Cent
Universe
Cents
Come
Dont
Different
Grand
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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Still people are dangerous.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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