Jean de La Fontaine
Quotes
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Kindness effects more than severity.
Love is a cruel conqueror.
Happy is he who knows him through stories
And not by his blows!
Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
In short, luck's always to blame.
The sign brings customers.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
... a wise man knows
Gold comes but slowly, quickly goes;
I never touched it." "Gracious me!"
Replied the other, "why, then, be
So wretched? for if you say true,
You never touched it, plain the case;
Put back that stone upon the place,
'Twill be the very same to you."
No path of flowers leads to glory.
The fly of the coach.
"They are too green", he said, "and only good for fools".
