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Jean de La Fontaine [1621-1695] French

Rank: 101
Poet, Fabulist

Jean de La Fontaine was a famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages.

Friendship, Time, Dad, Fear, Future, Learning, Life, Love, Men, Patience, Power, Sad, Strength, Truth, Wisdom, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.	Friendship, Love	101
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.	Friendship, Life	102
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.	Future	103
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.	Men, Wisdom	104
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.	Patience, Strength, Time	105
In short, Luck's always to blame.		106
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.	Power, Truth	107
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.		108
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.	Sad, Time	109
People who make no noise are dangerous.		110
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.		111
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.		112
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.		113
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.	Learning	114
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.		115
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.		116
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.		117
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.		118
The strongest passion is fear.	Fear	119
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.		120
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.		121
A hungry stomach cannot hear.		122
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.	Dad	123
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.		124
By the work one knows the workman.	Work	125
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.		126
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.		201
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.		202
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.		203
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.		204
People must help one another; it is nature's law.		205
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.		206
Luck's always to blame.		207
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.		208
The argument of the strongest is always the best.		209
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.		210
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.		211
One returns to the place one came from.		212
There is nothing useless to men of sense.		213
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.		214
I bend and do not break.		215
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.		216
But the shortest works are always the best.		217
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.		218
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.		219
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.		220

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