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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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
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Jean de Lafontaine
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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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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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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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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I bend but do not break.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Still people are dangerous.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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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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