100 Quotations by Jean De La Bruyere
- 81. There are three stages in a person's life; birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of bi ...
- 82. There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you hav ...
- 83. There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have ...
- 84. They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
- 85. This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
- 86. Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
- 87. Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker
- 88. To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them ...
- 89. To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and whic ...
- 90. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
- 91. We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
- 92. We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
- 93. We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
- 94. We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insince ...
- 95. We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ...
- 96. When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other te ...
- 97. When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe ...
- 98. Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.
- 99. You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views ...
- 100. You think he is your dupe; but if he pretends to be so, then who is the greater dupe: him or you?
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