How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! — Jean de la Bruyere Loneliness and solitude Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. — Jean de la Bruyere Beautiful Copy Share Image
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency. — Jean de la Bruyere Caprice Copy Share Image
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
The reason that women do not love one another is - men. — Jean de la Bruyere Cynical Copy Share Image
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. — Jean de la Bruyere Manners Copy Share Image
We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Judgment Copy Share Image
If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Advancement Copy Share Image
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries. — Jean de la Bruyere Country Copy Share Image
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough… — Jean de la Bruyere Bounds Copy Share Image
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their… — Jean de la Bruyere Art Copy Share Image
The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who… — Jean de la Bruyere Art Copy Share Image
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which… — Jean de la Bruyere Ferocity Copy Share Image
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the… — Jean de la Bruyere Brilliant Copy Share Image
“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it… — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon… — Jean De La Bruyère Culture Copy Share Image
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,… — Jean de la Bruyere Age Copy Share Image
What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile,… — Jean de la Bruyere Corruption Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
