Quote: A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: They that have lived a single day have lived an age. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: Out of difficulties grow miracles. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. [Jean de La Bruyere]
Quote: The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. [Jean de La Bruyere]