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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Finest
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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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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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I bend but do not break.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Still people are dangerous.
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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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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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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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