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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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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Still people are dangerous.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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