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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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I bend but do not break.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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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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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.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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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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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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