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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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I bend but do not break.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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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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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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