“Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.” ― Jean de la Fontaine

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Patience and time do more than force and rage.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend—
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.”
― Jean de La Fontaine "Fables"

Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity.
The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables de La Fontaine

“Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.”
― Jean de la Fontaine

“I don't believe that Nature's powers
Have tied her hands or pinioned ours,
By marking on the heavenly vault
Our fate without mistake or fault.
That fate depends on conjunctions
Of places, persons, times, and tracks,
And not on the functions
Of more or less of quacks.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

“The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Beware, so long as you live, or judging men by their outwards appearance.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.”
― Jean de La Fontaine