Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

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

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

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.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

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

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.

By the work one knows the workman.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

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

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

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

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

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

In this world we must help one another.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Still people are dangerous.

I bend, but I do not break.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

In everything one must consider the end.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.