Jean de La Fontaine

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Biography : French poet.
Born: 1621 - Died: 1695
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

France

Jean de La Fontaine - Quotes

Love, love, all the rest is nothing.
Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon /

love

Love, love, all the rest is nothing.

In every undertaking we must keep the outcome in mind.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

Ingratitude is the mother of all vice.
Jean de La Fontaine - Tales and Novellas in Verse /

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

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

destiny

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

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine - Les Frelons et les Mouches à miel /

Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine - Le Chartier embourbé /

A wise and prudent king knows how to make use of even the least of his subjects.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

The wise are sparing both of time and words.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

A hungry stomach cannot hear.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine /

He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.
Jean de La Fontaine - Démocrite et les Abdéritains /

No path of flowers leads to glory.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

to listen

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine /

death

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

ignorance

The strongest passion is fear.
Jean de La Fontaine /

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

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

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

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

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

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 /

truth