Inspiring Quotes by Jean de La Bruyère - Page 2

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"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less"

"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself"

"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position"

"Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future"

"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect"

"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"

"A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably"

"A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought"

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