A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM… — Jean de la Bruyere Acknowledge Copy Share Image
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. — Jean de la Bruyere Feels 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
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,… — Jean de la Bruyere Caprice Copy Share Image
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free… — Jean de la Bruyere Common Copy Share Image
There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune. — Jean de la Bruyere Ends Copy Share Image
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 Charm Copy Share Image
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. — Jean de la Bruyere Despise Copy Share Image
The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and… — Jean de la Bruyere Causes Copy Share Image
It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select… — Jean de la Bruyere Coquette Copy Share Image
A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle… — Jean de la Bruyere Bachelors Copy Share Image
We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our… — Jean de la Bruyere Hands Copy Share Image
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. — Jean de la Bruyere Love Copy Share Image
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much. — Jean de la Bruyere Littles Copy Share Image
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father. — Jean De La Bruyere Crime Copy Share Image
When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is… — Jean de la Bruyere Beauty Copy Share Image
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those… — Jean de la Bruyere Faults Copy Share Image
Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man… — Jean de la Bruyere Coarse Copy Share Image
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable. — Jean de la Bruyere Esteem Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Certain Copy Share Image
