Jean de La Fontaine

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

One returns to the place one came from.

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

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

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

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The strongest passion is fear.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.