Fabulist

🇫🇷Oscar Wilde

Literature

Aestheticism

1854–1900

"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

🇦🇹Franz Kafka

Literature

Realism

1894–1924

"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."

🇫🇷Jean de La Fontaine

Literature

1621–1695

"They are too green", he said, "and only good for fools."

Ivan Krylov

Journalism

1769–1844

"It is only when our consciences become tangled that the truth begins to hurt."

🇫🇷François Fénelon

Literature

1651–1715

"If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God, and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection."

🏛️Aesop

Literature

-619–-563

"The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'"