The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your… — Jean de la Bruyere Business Copy Share Image
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. — Jean de la Bruyere Great person Copy Share Image
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it. — Jean de la Bruyere Aversion Copy Share Image
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency. — Jean de la Bruyere Caprice Copy Share Image
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. — Jean de la Bruyere Every man Copy Share Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management. — Jean de la Bruyere Conjecture Copy Share Image
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete,… — Jean de la Bruyere Bars Copy Share Image
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. — Jean de la Bruyere Charter 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
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one… — Jean de la Bruyere Equal Copy Share Image
When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss… — Jean de la Bruyere Born Copy Share Image
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. — Jean de la Bruyere Being happy Copy Share Image
I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth,… — Jean de la Bruyere Atoms Copy Share Image
Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even… — Jean de la Bruyere Country Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?' — Jean de la Bruyere Birth Copy Share Image
How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those… — Jean de la Bruyere Astonishment 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 Diamond Copy Share Image
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for… — Jean de la Bruyere Beautiful Copy Share Image
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the… — Jean De La Bruyere Book Copy Share Image
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They… — Jean de la Bruyere Found Copy Share Image
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as… — Jean de la Bruyere Conditions Copy Share Image
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. — Jean de la Bruyere Friendship Copy Share Image
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is… — Jean de la Bruyere Artifice Copy Share Image
Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles. — Jean de la Bruyere Caught Copy Share Image
