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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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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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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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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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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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