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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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