Jean de la Bruyere

To delay is injustice.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

To forget someone means to think of him.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Men make the best friends.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

— Jean de la Bruyere

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A modest man never talks of himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

— Jean de la Bruyere

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good…

— Jean de la Bruyere

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at…

— Jean de la Bruyere

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by…

— Jean de la Bruyere

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

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

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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