Fabulist Tapestries

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: I don't believe that Nature's powers Have tied her hands or pinion'd ours, By marking on the heavenly vault Our fate without mistake or fault. That fate depends upon conjunctions Of places, persons, times, and tracks, And not upon the functions Of more or less of quacks.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l’écoute

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger les gens sur la mine.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: S'il fallait condamner tous les ingrats qui sont au monde, à qui pourrait-on pardonner ?

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Patience and time do more than force and rage.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.