Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

But the shortest works are always the best.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

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.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

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

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.

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.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

I bend and do not break.

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

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

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

The strongest passion is fear.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

By the work one knows the workman.

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.