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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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