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We heed no instincts but our own.
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
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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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