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.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living.

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.