Jean de La Fontaine

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

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

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

But the shortest works are always the best.

By the work one knows the workman.