Inspirational Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

To delay is injustice.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Sudden love is latest cured.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

— Jean de la Bruyere

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

— Jean de la Bruyere

To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

— Jean de la Bruyere

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

— Jean de la Bruyere

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man must be very inert to have no character at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere