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We risk all in being too greedy.

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
Greediness
Greedy
Greed
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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Still people are dangerous.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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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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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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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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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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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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