Jean De La Fontaine

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

In everything one must consider the end.

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.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Let fools the studious despise,_x000D_ _x000D_ There's nothing lost by being wise.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

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.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.