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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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