Jean de La Fontaine
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.Collection: Looks
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.Collection: Promise
In everything one must consider the end.Collection: Ends
We risk all in being too greedy.Collection: Greed
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.Collection: Secret
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.Collection: Destiny
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.Collection: Speech
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.Collection: Distance
It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.Collection: Running
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.Collection: Exercise
Religious contention is the devil's harvest.Collection: Religious
The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.Collection: Heart
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.Collection: Editors
Sensible people find nothing useless.Collection: Happiness
Diversity, that is my motto.Collection: Diversity
In this world we must help one another.Collection: World
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.Collection: Knowledge
We become innocent when we are unfortunate.Collection: Innocence
Cats know not how to pardon.Collection: Forgiveness
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.Collection: Talent
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.Collection: Father
A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.Collection: Cute
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.Collection: Strength
To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.Collection: Hell
O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.Collection: Love
Better to suffer than to die.Collection: Suffering
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.Collection: Inspirational
One often has need of one inferior to himself.Collection: Needs
Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.Collection: Perseverance
The worst time is always the present.Collection: Worst Times
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.Collection: Lying
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.Collection: Two
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.Collection: Men
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.Collection: Danger
What God does, He does well.Collection: God
No path of flowers leads to glory.Collection: Flower
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.Collection: Violence
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.Collection: Inspirational
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.Collection: Temptation
He knows the universe and does not know himself.Collection: Knowledge
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.Collection: Men
In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.Collection: Ducks
We believe no evil till the evil's doneCollection: Believe
We heed no instincts but our own.Collection: Instinct
Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.Collection: Patience