Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

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

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