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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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I bend but do not break.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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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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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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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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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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