When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves. — Jean de la Bruyere Funny Copy Share Image
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed. — Jean de la Bruyere Birth Copy Share Image
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere Bored Copy Share Image
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. — Jean de la Bruyere Generosity Copy Share Image
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. — Jean de la Bruyere Authorship Copy Share Image
To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate. — Jean de la Bruyere Happiness Copy Share Image
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere Dawn Copy Share Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she… — Jean de la Bruyere Bears Copy Share Image
Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. — Jean de la Bruyere Existence Copy Share Image
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. — Jean de la Bruyere Arrogance Copy Share Image
Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce… — Jean de la Bruyere Diamond Copy Share Image
The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his… — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty… — Jean de la Bruyere Delivery Copy Share Image
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. — Jean de la Bruyere Friend Copy Share Image
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it — Jean de la Bruyere Constitution Copy Share Image
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. — Jean de la Bruyere Crime Copy Share Image
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable. — Jean de la Bruyere Esteem Copy Share Image
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite. — Jean de la Bruyere Being polite Copy Share Image
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. — Jean de la Bruyere Burden Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less. — Jean de la Bruyere Eminent Copy Share Image
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object. — Jean de la Bruyere Envy Copy Share Image
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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