From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

— Jean de la Fontaine

Half of today is better than all tomorrow.

— Jean de la Fontaine

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

— Jean de la Fontaine

Help yourself and heaven will help you.

— Jean de la Fontaine

I bend but I do not break.

— Jean de la Fontaine

In everything one must consider the end.

— Jean de la Fontaine

In this world we must help one another.

— Jean de la Fontaine

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

— Jean de la Fontaine

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.

— Jean de la Fontaine

One returns to the place one came from.

— Jean de la Fontaine