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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.
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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Bien
Everything
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Auteurs
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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