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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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