More Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
We risk all in being too greedy.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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.
