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