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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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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.
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The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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Still people are dangerous.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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