Jean De La Fontaine

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Jean De La Fontaine

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Jean De La Fontaine

Still people are dangerous.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Jean De La Fontaine

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

— Jean De La Fontaine

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Jean De La Fontaine

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

— 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

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

Luck's always to blame.

— Jean De La Fontaine

In short, luck's always to blame.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

— Jean De La Fontaine

By the work one knows the workmen.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

— Jean De La Fontaine

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

— Jean De La Fontaine

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

— Jean De La Fontaine

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

— Jean De La Fontaine