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Comment peut-on transcrire en anglais cette formule de Jean de La Fontaine « Selon que vous serez puissant ou misérable; Les jugements de cour vous rendront blanc ou noir ».

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Setsukochan profile picture SetsukochanOctober 2019

There is a little flavor of naturalism and determinism to this quote by La Fontaine, here ; it means that you will be found either guilty or innocent, depending on your wealth (literally "whether you are wealthy or poor"), the strong inference by the author being that the judicial system was rigged and that there was little or no justice for the destitute.