Jean de La Fontaine

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

“Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.”

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

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

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

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