Jean de La Fontaine

Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir _ point

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 he fears or desires.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

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

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

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

By the work one knows the workman.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats neither fear nor shame can cure them.

The worst time is always the present.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.