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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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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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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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I bend but do not break.
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