For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. — 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 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
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before… — Jean de la Bruyere 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 Copy Share Image
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant… — 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, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The unfaithful woman, if she is known for such by the person concerned, is only unfaithful. If she is thought faithful, she is perfidious. — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste… — Jean de la Bruyere 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 he, on… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr.,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
![“The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]” quote by Jean de la Bruyere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fcf/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_built_the-court-is-like-a-palace-built-of-marb_77288.jpg)
