Quotes Jean de La Fontaine

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
People who make no noise are dangerous.
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
There is nothing useless to men of sense.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
One returns to the place one came from.
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
By the work one knows the workman.
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
In short, Luck's always to blame.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
But the shortest works are always the best.
People must help one another; it is nature's law.
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

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