Jean de La Fontaine quotes

“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

“One returns to the place one came from.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“One often has need of one, inferior to himself.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“There is nothing useless to men of sense. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“There is no road of flowers leading to glory.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“The strongest passion is fear.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Rather suffer than die is man's motto. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“Luck's always to blame. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“I bend and do not break. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“But the shortest works are always the best. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Jean de La Fontaine