Jean de La Fontaine

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…

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer…

Patience and time do more than strength or passion…

Sadness flies away on the wings of time…

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

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

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of…

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at…

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire…

People must help one another it is nature’s law…

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

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

By the work one knows the workman…

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