Quotes from Jean de La Fontaine

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

In everything one must consider the end.

We risk all in being too greedy.

In this world we must help one another.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

In short, luck's always to blame.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

I bend, but I do not break.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

The worst time is always the present.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

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

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.