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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Nothing
Fastidious
Satisfies
Unfortunate

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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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I bend but do not break.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Still people are dangerous.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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