Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

Il ne faut jamais
Vendre la peau de l'ours qu'on ne l'ait mis par terre.

Laissez dire les sots: le savoir a son prix.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Patience et longueur de temps
Font plus que force ni que rage.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

No está cubierto de flores el camino a la gloria

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

For thee I'll trace in verses which I write Some sketches, paintings which indeed are light, And if the prize of pleasing thee I do not bear away, At least, the honour I shall have of having tried I say.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

La mort ne surprend point le sage:
Il est toujours prêt à partir.

Love is a cruel conqueror.
Happy is he who knows him through stories
And not by his blows!

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.