Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

One returns to the place one came from.

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

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

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.

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

People who make no noise are dangerous.

But the shortest works are always the best.

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

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

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

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

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

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

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

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

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

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

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

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.