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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
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Chateau-Thierry
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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I bend but do not break.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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