In everything one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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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.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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