Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

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

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

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

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.

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

In everything one must consider the end.

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.

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

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

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

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

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

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

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.