Quotes from Jean de La Fontaine


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    The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

    Satisfies | Fastidious


    I bend and do not break.

    Bend | Break


    It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

    Pleasure | Double | Deceive


    But the shortest works are always the best.

    Best | Works | Shortest


    We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

    Others


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

    Fear | Happy | Laugh


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

    Death | Wise | Surprise


    We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

    Luxury | Fortune | Foolish


    There is nothing useless to men of sense.

    Men | Useless


    The argument of the strongest is always the best.

    Best | Argument | Strongest


    Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

    Listen | Expense | Advised


    Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

    Motto | Die | Suffer


    One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

    Inferior | Himself


    Luck's always to blame.

    Luck | Blame


    It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

    Pleasure | Twice | Deceive


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

    Fear | Shame | Faults


    Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

    Fear | Desire | Whatever


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

    Nature | Law | Help


    By the work one knows the workman.

    Work | Knows | Workman


    Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

    Help | Heaven | Thyself


       

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