To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else. — Jean de la Bruyere Certain Copy Share Image
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. — Jean de la Bruyere Contrary Copy Share Image
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of… — Jean de la Bruyere Alive Copy Share Image
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone… — Jean de la Bruyere Certain Copy Share Image
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between… — Jean de la Bruyere Commonwealth Copy Share Image
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 Advice Copy Share Image
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while… — Jean de la Bruyere Alive 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 Blockheads 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 Conform Copy Share Image
The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances… — Jean de la Bruyere Anticipation Copy Share Image
We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is… — Jean de la Bruyere Attention Copy Share Image
Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. — Jean de la Bruyere Communication 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 Acres 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 Appearance Copy Share Image
We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas… — Jean de la Bruyere Able 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 Grants 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 Children Copy Share Image
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and… — Jean de la Bruyere Duty 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 Character Copy Share Image
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. — Jean de la Bruyere Friendship Copy Share Image
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere Dawn Copy Share Image
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one. — Jean de la Bruyere Fortune Copy Share Image
