Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Les délicats sont malheureux:Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Il connaît l’univers, et ne se connaît pas.
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Je plie, et ne romps pas.
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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.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Luck's always to blame.
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'They are too green', he said, 'and only good for fools'.
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Bref, la fortune a toujours tort.
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Plus fait douceur que violence.
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L’enseigne fait la chalandise.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.