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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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
Playwright
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Writer
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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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In this world we must help one another.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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