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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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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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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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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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