Quotes By Jean De La Fontaine

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

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

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.

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

But the shortest works are always the best.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

I bend and do not break.

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

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

The strongest passion is fear.

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.