Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares...

I bend but I do not break.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

We risk all in being too greedy.

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.

The worst time is always the present.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, no...

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

All roads lead to Rome but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

One returns to the place one came from.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I ...

By the work one knows the workman.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Better to suffer than to die.

We are never content with our lot.

In this world we must help one another.

Help yourself and heaven will help you.

In everything one must consider the end.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it...