Quotes By Jean De La Bruyere

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Love and friendship exclude each other.