There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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 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
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. — 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 Copy Share Image
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. — 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
