Jean De La Fontaine
» Achievement » “We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.”
» Appearance » “Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.”
» Argument » “The argument of the strongest is always the best.”
» Attitude » “A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.”
» Behavior » “Still people are dangerous.”
» Belief » “Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
» Danger » “Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.”
» Death and Dying » “Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
» Deception » “It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”
» Detail » “The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.”
» Discretion » “Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.”
» Faults » “Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.”
» Flattery » “Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.”
» Giving » “We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.”
» Greatness » “Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.”
» Home » “One returns to the place one came from.”
» Inferiority » “One often has need of one, inferior to himself.”
» Journalism and Journalists » “Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.”
» Life and Living » “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.”
» Luck » “In short, luck’s always to blame.”
» Luck » “Luck’s always to blame.”
» Patience » “Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.”
» Quality » “By the work one knows the workmen.”
» Secrets » “Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”
» Self-knowledge » “He knows the universe and does not know himself.”
» Self-reliance » “Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.”
» Soul » “Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish”
» Suffering » “Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.”
