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.
success men deeds
Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.
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.
wealth fortune
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
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.
friendship pests guests
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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.
mediocrity speech painting
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
running country loss
When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.