Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed. — Jean de la Bruyere Comedy Copy Share Image
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. — Jean de la Bruyere Child Copy Share Image
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. — Jean de la Bruyere Confines Copy Share Image
To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing. — Jean de la Bruyere Inspirational Copy Share Image
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Comedy Copy Share Image
A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand. — Jean de la Bruyere Feminism Copy Share Image
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much… — Jean de la Bruyere Fame Copy Share Image
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of… — Jean de la Bruyere Alive Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in… — Jean de la Bruyere Ambitious Copy Share Image
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant… — Jean de la Bruyere Haste Copy Share Image
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?' — Jean de la Bruyere Birth Copy Share Image
If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant;… — Jean de la Bruyere Adventure Copy Share Image
A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation… — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. — Jean de la Bruyere Bias Copy Share Image
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does. — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. — Jean de la Bruyere Crime Copy Share Image
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. — Jean de la Bruyere Friendship Copy Share Image
It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men — Jean De La Bruyere Action Copy Share Image
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Comedy Copy Share Image
A man without characteristics is a most insipid character. — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
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