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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
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French Moralist
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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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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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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