When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the… — Jean De La Bruyere Book Copy Share Image
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de… — Jean de la Bruyere Crime Copy Share Image
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must… — Jean de la Bruyere Age Copy Share Image
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death. — Jean de la Bruyere Death Copy Share Image
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose… — Jean de la Bruyere Excess Copy Share Image
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive… — Jean de la Bruyere Bears Copy Share Image
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He… — Jean de la Bruyere Age Copy Share Image
Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that… — Jean de la Bruyere Conscience Copy Share Image
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to… — Jean de la Bruyere Avarice Copy Share Image
It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you. — Jean de la Bruyere Advantage Copy Share Image
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to… — Jean de la Bruyere Danger Copy Share Image
It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are… — Jean de la Bruyere Enemy Copy Share Image
High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither… — Jean de la Bruyere Birth Copy Share Image
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer… — Jean de la Bruyere Death Copy Share Image
There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others. — Jean De La Bruyere Industry Copy Share Image
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of… — Jean de la Bruyere Industry Copy Share Image
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies… — Jean de la Bruyere Birth Copy Share Image
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. — Jean de la Bruyere Book Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere… — Jean de la Bruyere Art of life Copy Share Image
The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do… — Jean de la Bruyere Birth Copy Share Image
A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he… — Jean de la Bruyere Doctor Copy Share Image
The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be… — Jean de la Bruyere Evil Copy Share Image
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. — Jean de la Bruyere Friend Copy Share Image
Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.] — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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