Quotes from Jean de La Fontaine

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

We believe no evil till the evil's done.

People must help one another it is nature's law.

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

We heed no instincts but our own.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

By the work one knows the workman.

The strongest passion is fear.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

I bend but do not break.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

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.

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

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

Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto.

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.