Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

By the work one knows the workman.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

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.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Luck's always to blame.

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

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

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.

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

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

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.