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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
Fabulist
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 become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
Jean de La Fontaine
One returns to the place one came from.
Jean de La Fontaine
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
Diversity, that is my motto.
Jean de La Fontaine
Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
Jean de La Fontaine
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
Jean de La Fontaine
The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
Jean de La Fontaine
Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
Jean de La Fontaine
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
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.
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
Jean de La Fontaine
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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
Still people are dangerous.
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