Jean de La Fontaine

All roads lead to Rome but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made I tried to be an herbalist whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

Help yourself and heaven will help you.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.

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

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!

I bend but I do not break.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

One returns to the place one came from.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

In this world we must help one another.

We risk all in being too greedy.

In everything one must consider the end.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

We are never content with our lot.