22 Quotes By Jean de La Fontaine

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By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine on art

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Jean de La Fontaine on dad

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine on death

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine on fear

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine on fear

The strongest passion is fear.
Jean de La Fontaine on fear

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Fontaine on fear

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine on friendship

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine on friendship

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine on future

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine on learning

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine on life

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine on love

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine on men

People must help one another it is nature's law.
Jean de La Fontaine on nature

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine on patience

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 on power

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine on sad

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine on strength

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine on time