[Concerning the love La Fontaine felt for animals] He follo… - Hippolyte Taine

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[Concerning the love La Fontaine felt for animals] He follows their emotions, he represents their reasonings, he becomes tender, he becomes gay, he participates in their feelings. The fact is, he lived in them. […] The animals contain all the materials of man-sensations, judgments, images.

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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French critic and historian.

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Pen Names: Frédéric-Thomas Graindorge

Alternative Names: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine • H. A. Taine • Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine • Ippolit Adolf Ten

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Napoleon, far more Italian than French, Italian by race, by instinct, imagination, and souvenir, considers in his plan the future of Italy, and, on casting up the final accounts of his reign, we find that the net profit is for Italy and the net loss is for France.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Translation: I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

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