Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe heed no instincts but our own.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
-
-
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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 ought to consider the end in everything.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
I bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE -
Cats know not how to pardon.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE