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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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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