Jean de la Bruyere was a famous Philosopher from France.
Our collection contains 59 quotes who is written / told by Jean, under the main topic Legal.
59 Famous quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest"
"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored"
"He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk"
"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property"
"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone"
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before"
"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone"
"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone"
"A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less"
"A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were"
"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you"
"A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others"
"Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father"
"They that have lived a single day have lived an age"
"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love"
"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman"
"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman"
"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed"
"We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly"
"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together"
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all"
"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together"
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings"
"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal"
"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes"
"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education"
"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things"
"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation"
"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one"
"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author"
"Love and friendship exclude each other"
"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth"
"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed"
"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men"
"It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not"
"It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"
"It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues"
"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction"
"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other"
"I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found"
"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank"
"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less"
"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth"
"The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished"
"There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live"
"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking"
"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity"
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience"
"A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably"
