Jean de La Fontaine Quotes and its meanings

By the work one knows the workman.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

The strongest passion is fear.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

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.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

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.

By the work one knows the workman.