Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

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

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

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

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

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

By the work one knows the workman.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

By the work one knows the workman.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.