Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

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.

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

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

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

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

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