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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
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French Moralist
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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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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In this world we must help one another.
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