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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

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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
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Chateau-Thierry
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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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I bend but do not break.
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Still people are dangerous.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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