A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. — 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
A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved,… — Jean de la Bruyere 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 Copy Share Image
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself. — 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
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before… — 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
