What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identities your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Candor, Friendship
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Appearance
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Greatness, Greatness & Great Things
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Mistakes, Faults
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Deception/Lying, Deception
Everyone has a wallet behind for his own failings, and one before for the failings of others.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Judgment, Friendship, Judging
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Desire, Belief
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Patience
The worst time is always the present.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: The Past
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: The Present, Tomorrow
In this world we must help one another.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Helping, Service
Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Patience
Luck’s always to blame.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Luck
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Fate, Self-Discovery
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Danger
Nothing is useless to the man of sense; he turns everything to account.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Intelligence
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
Still people are dangerous.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Manners, Danger, Behavior
One returns to the place one came from.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Home
I bend, but I do not break.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Endurance, Resolve, Courage, Perseverance
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Optimism, Positive Attitudes
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Self-reliance, Independence, Prayer
We are never content with our lot.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Appreciation, Blessings, Gratitude
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Inferiority
We only listen to those instincts which are our own, and only give credit to the evil when it has befallen us.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Friends, Friendship
In everything one must consider the end.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Aspirations, Goals
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
—Jean de La Fontaine
Topics: Argument
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- Voltaire French Philosopher, Author
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