Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Quote by Jean De La Fontaine

Topics: Self Reliance Quotes

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

By the work one knows the workman.

By the work one knows the workman.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

One returns to the place one came from.

One returns to the place one came from.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

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

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

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

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

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at...

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at...

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

We believe no evil till the evil's done

We believe no evil till the evil's done

There is no road of flowers leading to glory

There is no road of flowers leading to glory

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

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

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

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that...

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that...

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

I bend and do not break.

I bend and do not break.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.