Quotes Jean de La Fontaine

A hungry stomach cannot hear....

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

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the ...

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animat...

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those ...

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor....

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

But the shortest works are always the best....

By the work one knows the workman....

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always rea...

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wi...

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to h...

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one....

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire....

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on i...

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neithe...

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases wit...

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee....

I bend and do not break....

In short, Luck's always to blame....

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver....

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

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver....

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

Luck's always to blame....