Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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.

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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.

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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

— Jean De La Bruyere

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.

— Jean De La Bruyere

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.

— Jean De La Bruyere

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

— Jean De La Bruyere

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

— Jean De La Bruyere

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

— Jean De La Bruyere

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

— Jean De La Bruyere

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

— Jean De La Bruyere

A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

— Jean De La Bruyere

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.

— Jean De La Bruyere

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

— Jean De La Bruyere

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

— Jean De La Bruyere

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

— Jean De La Bruyere

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean De La Bruyere