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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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Peacock
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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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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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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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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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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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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