Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Jean de La Fontaine
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Fontaine
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
Jean de La Fontaine
There is nothing useless to men of sense.
Jean de La Fontaine
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Jean de La Fontaine
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The strongest passion is fear.
Jean de La Fontaine
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Jean de La Fontaine
Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
Jean de La Fontaine
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
Jean de La Fontaine
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean de La Fontaine
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
Jean de La Fontaine
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine
Luck’s always to blame.
Jean de La Fontaine
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine
In short, Luck’s always to blame.
Jean De La Fontaine
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
One returns to the place one came from.
Jean de La Fontaine
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
Jean de La Fontaine
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
People who make no noise are dangerous.
Jean de La Fontaine
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Jean de La Fontaine
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
I bend and do not break.
Jean de La Fontaine
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.
Jean de La Fontaine
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine
But the shortest works are always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Jean de La Fontaine
