Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: "Each to the other we seem insane": Invicem insanire videmur. There is a never-ending duel between the two.

The fly of the coach.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

"They are too green", he said, "and only good for fools".