To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. — Jean de la Bruyere Great men Copy Share Image
Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty — Jean De La Bruyere Beauty Copy Share Image
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
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 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
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. — Jean de la Bruyere Compensation 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
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 Copy Share Image
Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter; their style is infused… — Jean de la Bruyere Insults Copy Share Image
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont… — Jean de la Bruyere Child Copy Share Image
The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers… — Jean de la Bruyere Books Copy Share Image
Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other… — Jean de la Bruyere Advantage Copy Share Image
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what… — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself;… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Character Copy Share Image
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. — Jean de la Bruyere Action Copy Share Image
Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse. — Jean de la Bruyere Extremes Copy Share Image
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. — Jean de la Bruyere Child 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
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Funny Copy Share Image
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” — Jean de La Bruyère Brevity Copy Share Image
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life. — Jean de la Bruyere Anxiety Copy Share Image
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. — Jean de la Bruyere Community Copy Share Image
![“Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir; et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]” quote by Jean de la Bruyere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/672/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_child_children-have-neither-past-nor-future-an_942458.jpg)
