Jean de La Fontaine

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

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

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

I bend and do not break.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

One returns to the place one came from.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

In short, Luck's always to blame.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Luck's always to blame.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

But the shortest works are always the best.

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

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.