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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
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Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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In this world we must help one another.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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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.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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