Jean de La Fontaine Quotes - Page 6

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• I bend and do not break.

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  Break

  Jean de La Fontaine, Christopher Betts (2014). “Selected Fables”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• The strongest passion is fear.

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  Passion, Strongest

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• Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

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  Imagination, Fool, Opinion

  "Clymène". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, V, 54, 1671.

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• Still people are dangerous.

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  People, Behavior, Danger

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• Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

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  Ignorance, Values

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678-1679.

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• A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

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  Cities, Paris, Mountain

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• Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

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  Peacock, Feathers

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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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  Too Much, Want, Auteurs

  1668 Fables, pt.5, no.1, 'Le bu" cheron et Mercure'.

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• Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
  [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]

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  May, Affair, Prudence

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• Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
  [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps
  Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

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  Folly, Alas

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• The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

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  Unfortunate, Fastidious

  "Fables (Book II)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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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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  Adversity, Fool, Stills

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• What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

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  Men, Cunning, Brutes

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• Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
  [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres,
  Ne lui font changer de manieres.]

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  Change, Blow, Fonts

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• Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

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  Ears, Moderation, Refrain

  Jean de La Fontaine, Marianne Moore (1954). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

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  Life, Friendship, Wise

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678-1679.

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• Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

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  Evil, Journalism, Tribute

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• Such gluttony second to none
  Almost ended fatally
  When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

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  Greed, Bones, Gluttony

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

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  Slave, Habit

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• Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.

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  Tails, Tongue, Foxes

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• Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

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  Cost, Flattery, Listeners

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• A hare is not caught with a drum.

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  Caught, Hares, Caution

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• The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?

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  House, May, Ruins

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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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  Different, Comedy, Hundred

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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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  Destiny, Men, Evil

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