Jean de la Fontaine Quotes and Quotations
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
One returns to the place one came from.
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.
By the work one knows the workman.
We risk all in being too greedy.
Better to suffer than to die.
We are never content with our lot.
In this world we must help one another.
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.
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
The worst time is always the present.
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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.
In everything one must consider the end.
From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing.
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
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.
I bend, but I do not break.
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.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.