Danh ngôn của Jean de La Fontaine (Sứ mệnh: 1)

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
By the work one knows the workman.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.