"Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point"
- Jean de La Fontaine
"Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires."
"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."
"Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret."
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time. "
"Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast."
"Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something."
- Jean de la Fontaine
"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."
"Rather suffer than die is man's motto."
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."