Jean de La Fontaine Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Jean de La Fontaine (random)
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- Type:
- Poet
- Nationality:
- French
- Birth Date / Year:
- July 8, 1621
- Death Date / Year:
- April 13, 1695
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A hungry stomach cannot hear. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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But the shortest works are always the best. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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By the work one knows the workman. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Help thyself and Heaven will help thee. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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I bend and do not break. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Luck's always to blame. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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One often has need of one, inferior to himself. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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One returns to the place one came from. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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People must help one another; it is nature's law. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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People who make no noise are dangerous. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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The argument of the strongest is always the best. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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The strongest passion is fear. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is nothing useless to men of sense. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Jean de La Fontaine | Refcard PDF ↑
