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Still people are dangerous.
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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Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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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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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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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on 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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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