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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