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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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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