100 Quotations by Jean De La Bruyere
- 1. A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
![A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
![A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
![A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. A man keeps another's secret better than he does his own. A woman, on the other hand, keeps her own ...
![A man keeps another's secret better than he does his own. A woman, on the other hand, keeps her own .... Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
![A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
![A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
![A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
![A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his ...
![A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his .... Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. A slave has only one master; an enterprising man has as many masters as there are people who may ser ...
![A slave has only one master; an enterprising man has as many masters as there are people who may ser .... Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
![A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 12. All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
![All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
![All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no o ...
![As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no o .... Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 15. As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he w ...
![As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he w .... Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 16. At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
![At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 17. Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate yo ...
![Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate yo .... Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 18. Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
![Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 19. Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
![Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
- 20. Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
![Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.. Jean De La Bruyere.](/img/view.gif)
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