Jean de La Fontaine

“One often has need of one, inferior to himself.”

“Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.”

“We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“Rather suffer than die is man's motto.”

“People who make no noise are dangerous.”

“A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.”

“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”

“Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.”

“One returns to the place one came from.”

“But the shortest works are always the best.”

“A hungry stomach cannot hear.”

“Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.”

“By the work one knows the workman.”