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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.

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
Wish
Reform
Window
Tried
Doors
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Traits
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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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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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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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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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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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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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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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