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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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We are never content with our lot.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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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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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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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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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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