Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
Jean de la Bruyere quotes about
years lasts firsts
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
morning lying night
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.
want pleasure private-life
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
passion wrinkles years
A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.
pain men honor
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
resources conversation charm
The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.
caprice decency
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
secret persons ifs
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
spiritual men ideas
What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to corruption like the vilest creatures? And does it not prove much more strength of mind and grandeur to be able to conceive the idea of a Being superior to all other beings, by whom and for whom all things were made ; of a Being absolutely perfect and pure, without beginning or end, of whom our soul is the image, and of whom, if I may say so, it is a part, because it is spiritual and immortal?
doe vices virtue
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
heart two people
Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
money heirs
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
party men spirit
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
passion men overcoming
Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.