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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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Better to suffer than to die.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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