The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. — Jean De La Bruyere Life Copy Share Image
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean de la Bruyere Book Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Abandon Copy Share Image
Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object. — Jean de la Bruyere Envy Copy Share Image
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. — Jean de la Bruyere Heart Copy Share Image
There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death… — Jean De La Bruyere Birth Copy Share Image
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. — Jean de la Bruyere Crime Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty — Jean De La Bruyere Beauty Copy Share Image
Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined,… — Jean de la Bruyere Certain 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
A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably. — Jean de la Bruyere Authorship Copy Share Image
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death. — Jean de la Bruyere Death Copy Share Image
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. — Jean de la Bruyere Government Copy Share Image
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” — Jean de La Bruyère Time Copy Share Image
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 Able 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 a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her. — Jean de la Bruyere Another woman Copy Share Image
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere. — Jean de la Bruyere Attachment Copy Share Image
When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look… — Jean de la Bruyere Arise 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
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. — Jean de la Bruyere Advice Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests. — Jean de la Bruyere Conquer Copy Share Image
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They… — Jean de la Bruyere Arrogance Copy Share Image
