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He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Knowledge
Universe
Doe

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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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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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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Still people are dangerous.
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