Jean de La Fontaine

“Todos los cerebros del mundo son impotentes contra cualquier estupidez que esté de moda.”

“I don't believe that Nature's powersHave tied her hands or pinioned ours,By marking on the heavenly vaultOur fate without mistake or fault.That fate depends on conjunctionsOf places, persons, times, and tracks,And not on the functionsOf more or less of quacks.”

“There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:Not only is he prompt to lend—An angler delicate, he fishesThe very deepest of your wishes,And spares your modesty the taskHis friendly aid to ask.A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,When pointing at the object dear.”

“Patience and time do more than force and rage.”

“Apprenez que tout flatteurVit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute :Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity.The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?”

“A menudo encontramos nuestro destino por los caminos que tomamos para evitarlo.”

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

“Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.”

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

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

“The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.”

“To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear.”

“Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.”

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ”

“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

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

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