There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before… — Jean de la Bruyere Draught Copy Share Image
We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions. — Jean de la Bruyere Endeavour Copy Share Image
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved,… — Jean de la Bruyere Animal Copy Share Image
It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us… — Jean de la Bruyere Causes 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
To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile? — Jean de la Bruyere Add Copy Share Image
A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she… — Jean de la Bruyere Adultery Copy Share Image
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. — Jean de la Bruyere Books Copy Share Image
I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows… — Jean de la Bruyere Bears Copy Share Image
We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they… — Jean de la Bruyere Bargains Copy Share Image
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing… — Jean de la Bruyere Despise Copy Share Image
A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with… — Jean de la Bruyere Believe Copy Share Image
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others,… — Jean de la Bruyere Bad qualities 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
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
The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent… — Jean de la Bruyere Men Copy Share Image
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity. — Jean de la Bruyere Doe Copy Share Image
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. — Jean de la Bruyere Compensation Copy Share Image
All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face,… — Jean de la Bruyere Dare 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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in… — Jean de la Bruyere Discretion Copy Share Image
Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them. — Jean de la Bruyere Dismissal Copy Share Image
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault. — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love. — Jean de la Bruyere Friend Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. — Jean de la Bruyere Court Copy Share Image
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere Absence 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
There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being… — Jean de la Bruyere Children 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
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. — Jean de la Bruyere Criticism 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
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune! — Jean de la Bruyere Beauty 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
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge… — Jean de la Bruyere Aspiration Copy Share Image
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows… — Jean de la Bruyere Doe Copy Share Image
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant… — Jean de la Bruyere Eloquence Copy Share Image
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. — Jean de la Bruyere Discover Copy Share Image
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Accounts Copy Share Image
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years… — Jean de la Bruyere Has beens Copy Share Image
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for… — Jean de la Bruyere Consciousness Copy Share Image
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