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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
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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We are never content with our lot.
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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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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Still people are dangerous.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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