Quotes By Jean De La Bruyere
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyere
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Jean de la Bruyere
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
Jean de la Bruyere
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean de la Bruyere
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere