Every newspaper editor owes tribute to.. Jean de La Fontaine

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Jean de La Fontaine

Profession: Poet
Nationality: French

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A hungry stomach cannot hear.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

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

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

The strongest passion is fear.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Beware so long as you live of judging people by appearances.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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