One returns to the place one came from.
Jean De La Fontaine
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean De La Fontaine
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.
Jean De La Fontaine
He told me never to sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean De La Fontaine
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Jean De La Fontaine
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.