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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
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Still people are dangerous.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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