How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! — Jean de la Bruyere Loneliness and solitude Copy Share Image
Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men. — Jean de la Bruyere Extremes Copy Share Image
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it. — Jean de la Bruyere Aversion Copy Share Image
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. — Jean de la Bruyere Custom Copy Share Image
We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. — Jean de la Bruyere Late Copy Share Image
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency. — Jean de la Bruyere Caprice Copy Share Image
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean de la Bruyere Add Copy Share Image
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? — Jean De La Bruyere Generosity Copy Share Image
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. — Jean de la Bruyere Commendable Copy Share Image
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased… — Jean de la Bruyere Action 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 Common Copy Share Image
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the… — Jean de la Bruyere Advancement Copy Share Image
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they… — Jean de la Bruyere Birth Copy Share Image
It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select… — Jean de la Bruyere Coquette Copy Share Image
“A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.” — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.] — Jean de la Bruyere Hero Copy Share Image
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much… — Jean de la Bruyere Fame Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it… — Jean de la Bruyere Accounts Copy Share Image
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough… — Jean de la Bruyere Bounds Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont… — Jean de la Bruyere Child Copy Share Image
Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other… — Jean de la Bruyere Advantage Copy Share Image
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who… — Jean de la Bruyere Attractive Copy Share Image
The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who… — Jean de la Bruyere Art Copy Share Image
I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth,… — Jean de la Bruyere Atoms Copy Share Image
There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before… — Jean de la Bruyere Arise Copy Share Image
I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of… — Jean de la Bruyere Earth Copy Share Image
Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them… — Jean de la Bruyere Advantage Copy Share Image
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the… — Jean de la Bruyere Brilliant 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… — Jean de la Bruyere Able Copy Share Image
The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon… — Jean De La Bruyère Culture 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 Bruyère Cleverness Copy Share Image
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