People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBy time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
-
-
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Sensible people find nothing useless.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
We heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
The strongest passion is fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE