Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

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.

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.