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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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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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