Frases de Jean De La Fontaine

“La paciencia y el tiempo hacen más que la fuerza y la violencia.”

“Nadie tiene dominio sobre el amor, pero el amor domina todas las cosas.”

“Engañar al que engaña es doblemente entretenido.”

“Todos los cerebros del mundo son impotentes contra cualquier estupidez que esté de moda.”

“A menudo encontramos nuestro destino por los caminos que tomamos para evitarlo.”

“Cada uno vuelve a caer cada vez en su falta habitual.”

“Cosa dulce es un amigo verdadero; bucea en el fondo de nuestro corazón inquiriendo nuestras necesidades. Nos ahorra el tener que descubrirlas por nosotros mismos.”

“Cualquier poder, si no se basa en la unión, es débil.”

“De nada sirve correr; lo que conviene es partir a tiempo.”

“La amistad, como la sombra vespertina, se ensancha en el ocaso de la vida.”

“La desdicha es el vínculo más estrecho de los corazones.”

“La imaginación tiene sobre nosotros mucho más imperio que la realidad.”

“La vergüenza de confesar el primer error, hace cometer muchos otros.”

“Los libros tienen su orgullo. Cuando se prestan, no vuelven nunca.”

“Ningún camino de flores conduce a la gloria.”

“Todo adulador vive a expensas de quien le escucha.”

“LA VENUS CALLIPYGA

Hubo en la Grecia dos siracusanas,
Que tenían un trasero portentoso;
Y, por saber la cual de las hermanas
Lo tenía más gentil, duro y carnoso,
Desnudas se mostraron a un perito
Que, después de palpar con dulce apremio,
Ofreció a la mayor su mano, en premio.
Tomó su hermano el no menos bonito
De la menor; alegres se casaron,
Y, tras más de una grata peripecia,
En honor de las dos un templo alzaron,
Con el nombre de: «Venus, nalga recia.»
No sé qué intención hubiera sido,
Mas fuera aqueste el templo de la Grecia
Al que más devoción habría tenido.”

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”

“Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.”

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

“He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.”

“History some truths contains, which well may serve
For lessons. In my work you will observe
Ev'ry thing speaks — yea e'en the very fish —
And what they say, to ev'ry man a dish
Serves up; and I of animals make choice
That men may get instruction from their voice.”

“There's nothing useless to a man of sense.”

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

“On the wings of Time grief flies away.”

“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”

“It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”

“No path of flowers leads to glory.”

“Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.”

“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”

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

“In short, luck's always to blame.”

“The ant is no lender; that is the least of her faults.”

“We then saw what St. Jerome said of those who serve God and those who serve the world: "Each to the other we seem insane": Invicem insanire videmur. There is a never-ending duel between the two.”

“People who make no noise are dangerous.”

“By the work one knows the workman.”

“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.”

“For thee I'll trace in verses which I write
Some sketches, paintings which indeed are light,
And if the prize of pleasing thee I do not bear away,
At least, the honour I shall have of having tried I say.”

“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”

“The sign brings customers.”

“One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.”

“The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.”

“Love is a cruel conqueror.
Happy is he who knows him through stories
And not by his blows!”