Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

We are never content with our lot.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

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

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

Better to suffer than to die.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

I bend but I do not break.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.

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

One returns to the place one came from.

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

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Help yourself and heaven will help you.

In this world we must help one another.

We risk all in being too greedy.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

The worst time is always the present.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

In everything one must consider the end.

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

All roads lead to Rome but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

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

By the work one knows the workman.