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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
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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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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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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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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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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