I bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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What God does, He does well.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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The sign brings customers.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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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.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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