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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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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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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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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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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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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