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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

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
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Still people are dangerous.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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