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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies 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
Playwright
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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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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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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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