Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men. — Jean de la Bruyere Extremes Copy Share Image
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better. — Jean de la Bruyere Enemy Copy Share Image
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Glory Copy Share Image
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. — Jean de la Bruyere Ill Copy Share Image
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. — Jean de la Bruyere Friends Copy Share Image
The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether… — Jean de la Bruyere Action Copy Share Image
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean de la Bruyere Add Copy Share Image
The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who… — Jean de la Bruyere Art Copy Share Image
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part. — Jean de la Bruyere Eloquence 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
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere Bored Copy Share Image
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction,… — Jean de la Bruyere Character 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 shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to… — Jean de la Bruyere Best way Copy Share Image
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. — Jean de la Bruyere Great men Copy Share Image
A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his… — Jean de la Bruyere Expenses 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 Armchairs Copy Share Image
“A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.” — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? — Jean de la Bruyere Add Copy Share Image
A man must be very inert to have no character at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. — Jean de la Bruyere Abyss Copy Share Image
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their… — Jean de la Bruyere Art Copy Share Image
