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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Forgiveness
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Cats
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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Still people are dangerous.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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One often has need of one inferior to 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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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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