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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
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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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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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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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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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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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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