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One returns to the place one came from.
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
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Chateau-Thierry
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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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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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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