More Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
I bend, but I do not break.
We risk all in being too greedy.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
