187 Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

Diversity, that is my motto.

In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.