More Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
We risk all in being too greedy.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
In everything one must consider the end.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.