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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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In this world we must help one another.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Still people are dangerous.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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