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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
Jean de La Fontaine
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.
Jean de La Fontaine
Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
Jean de La Fontaine
