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Poet Quotes
Category:
French Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 8, 1621
Date of Death:
April 13, 1695
Nationality:
French
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Jean de La Fontaine

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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
Jean de La Fontaine

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean de La Fontaine

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.
Jean de La Fontaine

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

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine

But the shortest works are always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine

By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Jean de La Fontaine

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean de La Fontaine

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Jean de La Fontaine

I bend and do not break.
Jean de La Fontaine

In short, Luck's always to blame.
Jean De La Fontaine

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fontaine

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La Fontaine

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine

Luck's always to blame.
Jean de La Fontaine

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Jean de La Fontaine

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
Jean de La Fontaine

One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
Jean de La Fontaine

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
Jean de La Fontaine

One returns to the place one came from.
Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine

People must help one another; it is nature's law.
Jean de La Fontaine

People who make no noise are dangerous.
Jean de La Fontaine

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine

The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Jean de La Fontaine

The strongest passion is fear.
Jean de La Fontaine

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
Jean de La Fontaine

There is nothing useless to men of sense.
Jean de La Fontaine

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
Jean de La Fontaine

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Fontaine

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


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