Quote: Neither wealth or greatness render us happy. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: 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]
Quote: One returns to the place one came from. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: One often has need of one, inferior to himself. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Help yourself, and Heaven will help you. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: He knows the universe and does not know himself. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: By the work one knows the workmen. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: The argument of the strongest is always the best. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. [Jean De La Fontaine]
Quote: Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. [Jean De La Fontaine]