Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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