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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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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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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]
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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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