How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! — Jean de la Bruyere Loneliness and solitude Copy Share Image
To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing. — Jean de la Bruyere Inspirational Copy Share Image
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. — Jean de la Bruyere Commendable Copy Share Image
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. — Jean de la Bruyere Bias Copy Share Image
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean de la Bruyere Mark Copy Share Image
We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much. — Jean de la Bruyere Littles Copy Share Image
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. — Jean de la Bruyere Child Copy Share Image
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. — Jean de la Bruyere Confines Copy Share Image
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue? — Jean de la Bruyere Ifs Copy Share Image
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. — Jean de la Bruyere All things Copy Share Image
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest… — Jean de la Bruyere Great men Copy Share Image
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. — Jean de la Bruyere Compassion Copy Share Image
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. — Jean de la Bruyere Arrogance Copy Share Image
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. — Jean de la Bruyere Child 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
To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate. — Jean de la Bruyere Happiness Copy Share Image
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect… — Jean de la Bruyere Aspect Copy Share Image
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur… — Jean de la Bruyere Doe Copy Share Image
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation… — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which… — Jean de la Bruyere Dogmatic Copy Share Image
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which… — Jean de la Bruyere Ferocity Copy Share Image
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant;… — Jean de la Bruyere Adventure Copy Share Image
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a… — Jean de la Bruyere Certain Copy Share Image
Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their… — Jean de la Bruyere Breasts Copy Share Image
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 Admire Copy Share Image
What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile,… — Jean de la Bruyere Corruption Copy Share Image
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,… — Jean de la Bruyere Age 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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of… — Jean de la Bruyere Brutes Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Able Copy Share Image
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