More Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
We risk all in being too greedy.
I bend, but I do not break.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
