Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Help yourself, and heaven will help you.
I bend and I break not.
The reason of the strongest is always the best.
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
A certain fox, it is said, wanted to become a wolf. Ah! who can say why no wolf has ever craved the life of a sheep?
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
In everything one must consider the end.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
He knows the world and does not know himself.
People must help one another; it is nature's law.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
Kindness effects more than severity.
There is nothing useless to men of sense: clever people turn everything to account.
Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
By the work one knows the workman.
History some truths contains, which well may serve.. for lessons.
You were singing? I'm very glad, very well, start dancing now.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
It is doubly pleasing to trick the trickster.
Variant: It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
