Quotes by La Bruyere, Jean De

"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."

La Bruyere, Jean De on education   

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

La Bruyere, Jean De on friends and friendship   

"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed."

La Bruyere, Jean De on generosity   

"A slave has but one master. An ambitious man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune."

La Bruyere, Jean De on ambition   

"I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found."

La Bruyere, Jean De on god   

"A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less."

La Bruyere, Jean De on greatness   

"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation."

La Bruyere, Jean De on hatred   

"One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on humor   

"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."

La Bruyere, Jean De on law and lawyers   

"The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished."

La Bruyere, Jean De on law and lawyers   

"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life   

"There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life   

"If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other."

La Bruyere, Jean De on life
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"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on love
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"Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within."

La Bruyere, Jean De on manners   

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

La Bruyere, Jean De on miracles
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"The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself."

La Bruyere, Jean De on misers and misery   

"Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit."

La Bruyere, Jean De on ridicule
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"A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."

La Bruyere, Jean De on secrets
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"A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem
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"We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem   

"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."

La Bruyere, Jean De on bores and boredom   

"Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker"

La Bruyere, Jean De on time
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"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on happiness
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"It requires more than mere genius to be an author."

La Bruyere, Jean De on writers and writing   

"Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future."

La Bruyere, Jean De on children   

"If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father."

La Bruyere, Jean De on crime and criminals   

"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."

La Bruyere, Jean De on criticism   

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

La Bruyere, Jean De on death
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