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Jean de La Fontaine

Quote of Jean de La Fontaine - Help yourself and heaven will help...


Biography - Jean de La Fontaine:

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

Help yourself and heaven will help you.


Note 

Note




Source: Le Chartier embourbé

Wikisource - La Fontaine - Fables (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.

German
Hilf dir, und der Himmel wird dir helfen!




See also 

See also...






Quotes for: heaven


Quotes

Quotes about heaven:


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.






Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.





They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.





I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.











Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.











Quotes

Quotes for: help


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.





Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.





Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.





People must help one another it is nature's law.





What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.











Quotes

Jean de La Fontaine also said...


Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





In every undertaking we must keep the outcome in mind.





Ingratitude is the mother of all vice.





Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.





Patience and time do more than strength or passion.





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












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