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We are never content with our lot.

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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Still people are dangerous.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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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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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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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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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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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