We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere Dawn Copy Share Image
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. — Jean de la Bruyere Child Copy Share Image
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. — Jean de la Bruyere Arrogance Copy Share Image
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. — Jean de la Bruyere Compassion Copy Share Image
It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. — Jean De La Bruyere Life Copy Share Image
Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings. — Jean de la Bruyere Christian Copy Share Image
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They… — Jean de la Bruyere Arrogance Copy Share Image
The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before… — Jean de la Bruyere Conversation Copy Share Image
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a… — Jean de la Bruyere Abyss 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 Copy Share Image
I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds… — Jean de la Bruyere 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 Ancients Copy Share Image
It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love. — Jean de la Bruyere Happiness 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 Copy Share Image
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of… — Jean de la Bruyere Giving 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 Copy Share Image
The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish… — Jean de La Bruyère Extreme poverty Copy Share Image
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. — Jean de la Bruyere Advice Copy Share Image
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises. — Jean de la Bruyere Action Copy Share Image
Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they… — Jean de la Bruyere Ability 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 Copy Share Image
One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there… — Jean de la Bruyere Cities Copy Share Image
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in… — Jean de la Bruyere Art Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean de la Bruyere Judgment Copy Share Image
A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has… — Jean de la Bruyere Bargains Copy Share Image
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean de la Bruyere Epithet Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of… — Jean de la Bruyere Dream Copy Share Image
![“The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]” quote by Jean de la Bruyere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b6/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_admire_the-same-principle-leads-us-to-neglect-a_1162291.png)
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