Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Jean De La Bruyere quotes, Jean De La Bruyere sayings, and Jean De La Bruyere proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to itJean De La Bruyere
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We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.Jean De La Bruyere
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.Jean De La Bruyere
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Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.Jean de la Bruyère
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We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.Jean De La Bruyere
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds habits and novelty.Jean De La Bruyere
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.Jean de la Bruyère
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Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.Jean De La Bruyere
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We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain.Jean De La Bruyere
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.Jean De La Bruyere
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Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.Jean De La Bruyere
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That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.Jean de la Bruyère
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To delay is injustice.Jean De La Bruyere
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.Jean De La Bruyere
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A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.Jean De La Bruyere
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There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.Jean De La Bruyere
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.Jean De La Bruyere
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The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.Jean De La Bruyere
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The beginning and the decline of love are both marked by the embarrassment the lovers feel to be alone together.Jean de La Bruyère
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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.Jean De La Bruyere
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.Jean De La Bruyere
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In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.Jean De La Bruyere
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False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.Jean De La Bruyere
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The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.Jean De La Bruyere
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.Jean De La Bruyere
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.Jean De La Bruyere
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.Jean De La Bruyere
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To speak and to offend, with some people, are but one and the same thing; their words are fraught with gall and wormwood, from a proud, splenetic, and malevolent disposition; it had been well for them, had they been born stupid or mute; the little vivacity and wit they have, prejudice them more than dulness does others. They are not always satisfied with giving sharp answers; they insolently attack the present, and wound the character of the absent; they bristle up and butt on all sides like rams; and impudence being as natural to them as horns to a ram, no ridicule, no satire, can work upon these untractable savages; we had better at first sight betake ourselves to our heels, and by a prudent flight avoid their molestations.Jean de La Bruyère
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There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur. which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy; and a false wisdom, which is prudery.Jean De La Bruyere
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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. Jean de La Bruyère