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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
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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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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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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