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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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