Jean de La Fontaine

About Jean de La Fontaine

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“People must help one another; it is nature's law.”
— "L'Ane et le Chien", as quoted in On a Darkling Plain (1995) by Richard Lee Byers, p. 94.
“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.”
— As quoted in From Grandmother with Love (2005) by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, p. 53.
“La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.”
— The opinion of the strongest is always the best.
“Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.”
— There's nothing useless to a man of sense.
“Sur les ailes du Temps la tristesse s'envole.”
— On the wings of Time grief flies away.
“"They are too green", he said, "and only good for fools".”
— The Fox and the Grapes, fable 11; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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