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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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Nothing
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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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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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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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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