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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Tail
Foxes
Tails
Tongue
Women

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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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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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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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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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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.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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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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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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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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