100 Quotations by Jean De La Bruyere
- 21. Criticism is often not a science, it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work ...
- 22. Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ...
- 23. Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you ...
- 24. Even the most well intentioned of great men should have several scoundrels nearby. After all, there ...
- 25. Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for ...
- 26. False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts ...
- 27. For man there are only three important events: birth, life and death; but he is unaware of being bor ...
- 28. From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who d ...
- 29. Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
- 30. Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
- 31. Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and ...
- 32. He who has lived a day has lived an age.
- 33. I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. T ...
- 34. If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is p ...
- 35. If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father.
- 36. If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
- 37. It is because of men that women dislike one another.
- 38. It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not ...
- 39. It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
- 40. It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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