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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.

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
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Nothing
Studious
Fools
Despise
Fool
Wise
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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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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 fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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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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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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