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
kindness finest pleasure
The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
running men extremes
Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.
stars fate men
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
practice justice judging
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it
practice world speech
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
heirs misery spendthrift
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
marriage husband giving
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
dog kings views
You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
manners should politeness
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
simple deeds action
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
jest intellect
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
hard-work men hands
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
self-esteem self-worth desire
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
friendship men perfect
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.