Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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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 ought to consider the end in everything.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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