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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
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In this world we must help one another.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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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 geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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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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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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