Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

People who make no noise are dangerous.

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

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.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

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

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

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.

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.

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

But the shortest works are always the best.

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

The strongest passion is fear.

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

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.