Death never takes the wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.

La mort ne surprend point le sage, il est toujours pret a partir.

Jean de la Fontaine

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Topic

Death

Author

Jean de la Fontaine

Source

Fables (de la Fontaine)

Medium

Fable and fairytale

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

La Fontaine, Jean. Fables Choisies [La Fontaine's Fables]. Paris: Chez Denys Thierry and Claude Barbin, 1678, bk. 8, no. 1.

Current Citation

La Fontaine, Jean. "Death and the Dying Man." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

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God and all the attributes of God are eternal.

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 1, prop. 19.

Current Citation

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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

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Topic
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Author

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

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Current Citation

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Another quote originally in French

See many skies and seas.

Gustave Flaubert

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Topic
Broadening one's horizons Travel

Author

Gustave Flaubert
Source
Letters of Gustave Flaubert
Medium
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Statement Type
Advice
Language
French
Time
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Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. c. 1840.