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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
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French Moralist
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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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.]
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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We are never content with our lot.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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In this world we must help one another.
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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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