Famous Quotes / Jean De La Bruyere
100 Quotations by Jean De La Bruyere
- 61. That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very g ...
- 62. The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
- 63. The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
- 64. The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
- 65. The great gift of conversation is less about displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of other ...
- 66. The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
- 67. The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
- 68. The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a ...
- 69. The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
- 70. The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
- 71. The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their inte ...
- 72. The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contr ...
- 73. The spendthrift robs his heirs; the miser robs himself.
- 74. The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
- 75. The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other ...
- 76. The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- 77. Thee slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help making his fortune.
- 78. There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing ...
- 79. There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquen ...
- 80. There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of ot ...