100 Quotations by Jean De La Bruyere
- 41. Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
- 42. Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
- 43. Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
- 44. Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
- 45. Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
- 46. Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
- 47. Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
- 48. Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
- 49. Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
- 50. Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.
- 51. No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
- 52. No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
- 53. Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and oth ...
- 54. One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
- 55. One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
- 56. One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among peop ...
- 57. Out of difficulties grow miracles.
- 58. Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an ...
- 59. Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
- 60. Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, animating us in our e ...
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