Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

This gentleman, with knowing air, Survey'd

Sur les ailes du Temps la tristesse s'envole.

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

Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living.

Habit,to which all of us are more or less slaves.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Quand l'abſurde eſt outré, on lui fait trop d'honneur

De vouloir par raiſon, combattre ſon erreur:

Enchérir eſt plus court, ſans s'échauffer la bile.

No está cubierto de flores el camino a la gloria

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

A foolish friend may cause more woe
Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras,
De juger les gens sur la mine.

Chain! Chain you! What! Run you not, then,
just where you please, and when?”
“Not always, sir; but what of that?”
“Enough for me, to spoil your fat!
It ought to be a precious price
which could to servile chains entice;
for me, I’ll shun them while I’ve wit.”
So ran Sir Wolf, and runneth yet.