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Cats know not how to pardon.
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
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Pardon
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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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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