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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
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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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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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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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I bend but do not break.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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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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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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