Famous Quotes

Quotes by Jean De La Fontaine

• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
• 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.
• Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
• By the work one knows the workman.
• Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
• Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
• Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
• Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
• It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
• Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
• Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
• People must help one another it is nature's law.
• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
• The strongest passion is fear.
• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.