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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
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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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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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