Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

We ought to consider the end in everything.
[Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]

We ought to consider the end in everything.
[Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
[Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
[Fr., Mieux vaut goujat debout qu'empereur enterre.]