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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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