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
love quiet-voice romance
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
long fool disappear
The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
time children future
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
being-alone being-sad inability
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
pain failure thinking
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
spring ignorance vanity
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
sound-judgment world pearls
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
property all-things lawsuit
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
loneliness spring being-alone
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
success two world
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]
causes merit birth
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.
plato character mean
The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.
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.