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Jean De La Bruyere Quotes
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The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress! (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A man can keep another’s secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched (Jean De La Bruyere Quotes)