Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
aversion forgetfulness wounds
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
spirit conversation deals
The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself.
sex men feelings
Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.
stars men effort
I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the truth ; that, being so short-sighted, they do not reach beyond the heavens and the stars, to contemplate God Himself.
powerful loud-voices long
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.
beautiful ideas moral
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.
love-always
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
heart men mind
I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they are placed in ; who value and love nothing beyond it ; whose minds are as cramped as that narrow spot of ground they call their estate, of which the extent is measured, the acres are numbered, and the limits well known.
secret lovers influence
When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.
writing truth-is
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
heart soul firsts
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
friendship long growth
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
heart people intellect
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
too-much speech littles
We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.