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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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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In this world we must help one another.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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