Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We perceive wen love begins and wen it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing. — Jean de la Bruyere 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 Bruyere Copy Share Image
Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. — 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
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves. — 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
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
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there… — 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
A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom… — 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
