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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Everything
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We are never content with our lot.
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