39 Quotes By Jean de la Bruyere


Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere on health

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere on legal

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Jean de la Bruyere on love

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere on love

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Jean de la Bruyere on marriage

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

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Jean de la Bruyere on men

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere on music

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere on patience

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Jean de la Bruyere on poetry

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 on power

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

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
Jean de la Bruyere on smile

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere on society

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere on society

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere on time

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Jean de la Bruyere on truth

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Jean de la Bruyere on truth

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean De La Bruyère on absence