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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Jean de La Fontaine was a 17th-century French fabulist and poet. Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages. Read more on Wikipedia →

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