Jean de La Fontaine
By the work one knows the workman.
-Jean de La Fontaine
art
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
-Jean de La Fontaine
dad
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
-Jean de La Fontaine
death
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
-Jean de La Fontaine
fear
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-Jean de La Fontaine
fear
The strongest passion is fear.
-Jean de La Fontaine
fear
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
-Jean de La Fontaine
fear
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
-Jean de La Fontaine
friendship
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
-Jean de La Fontaine
friendship
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Jean de La Fontaine
future
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
-Jean de La Fontaine
learning
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
-Jean de La Fontaine
life
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
-Jean de La Fontaine
love
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
-Jean de La Fontaine
men
People must help one another it is nature's law.
-Jean de La Fontaine
nature
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
-Jean de La Fontaine
patience
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.
-Jean de La Fontaine
power
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
-Jean de La Fontaine
sad
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
-Jean de La Fontaine
strength
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
-Jean de La Fontaine
time
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.
-Jean de La Fontaine
truth
By the work one knows the workman.
-Jean de La Fontaine
work
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