Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

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

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

In short, Luck's always to blame.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

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

Luck's always to blame.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

One returns to the place one came from.

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

But the shortest works are always the best.

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

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

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

People who make no noise are dangerous.

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

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.