"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."
Source: The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII. Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678-1679.
About the author
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
Jean de La Fontaine was a French poet renowned for his fables that blend humor with moral lessons, influencing literature and moral philosophy.
All quotes by Jean de La Fontaine →Same author
More quotes by Jean de La Fontaine
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."
"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."
"Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him."
"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish."