“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”
Power
“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
PatienceAll Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Future“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.”
Men“The strongest passion is fear.”
Fear“It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.”
Dad“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
Death“People must help one another it is nature's law.”
Nature“Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.”
Fear“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
Friendship“Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.”
Learning“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Sad“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Patience“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
Fear“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Friendship“By the work one knows the workman.”
Art“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
Fear