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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
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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