In this world we must help one another.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople who make no noise are dangerous.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
-
-
Sensible people find nothing useless.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
We risk all in being too greedy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
One returns to the place one came from.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE