1621-1695, French Poet
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Attitude]
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Appearance]
By the work one knows the workmen.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Quality]
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Death and Dying]
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Flattery]
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Journalism and Journalists]
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Belief]
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Faults]
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Friends and Friendship]
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Self-knowledge]
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Self-reliance]
In short, luck's always to blame.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Luck]
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Deception]
Luck's always to blame.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Luck]
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
Jean De La Fontaine – [Soul]
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Greatness]
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Discretion]
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Danger]
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Secrets]
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
Jean De La Fontaine – [Inferiority]