Jean De La Fontaine
28 quotations
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
One returns to the place one came from.
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Luck's always to blame.
In short, luck's always to blame.
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
By the work one knows the workmen.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Still people are dangerous.