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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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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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I bend but do not break.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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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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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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