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We heed no instincts but our own.
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
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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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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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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