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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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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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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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