Jean de La Fontaine on fortune
Jean de La Fontaine147 quotes“Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.”
More from Jean de La Fontaine
We risk all in being too greedy.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Better to suffer than to die.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine I bend, but I do not break.
Jean de La FontaineJean 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 FontaineJean de La Fontaine How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Nothing weighs more than a secret.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine One often has need of one inferior to himself.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine
Original quotes
From our community writers
Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
Laura CleggLaura Clegg
Meet the writers
More on fortune
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
LivyLivy Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
Sheryl SandbergSheryl Sandberg For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
BoethiusBoethius Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
Sheryl SandbergSheryl Sandberg Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
HerodotusHerodotus Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
AristophanesAristophanes What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JuvenalJuvenal