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But the shortest works are always the best.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

In everything one must consider the end.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

Help yourself and heaven will help you.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote