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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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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I bend but do not break.
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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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