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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).
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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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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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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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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