La Bruyere, Jean De
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La Bruyere, Jean De
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Greatness
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Crime and Criminals
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Critics and Criticism
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Bores and Boredom
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Death and Dying
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
Hatred
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Law and Lawyers
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Friends and Friendship
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Love
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.
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God
The court is like a palace of marble; it s composed of people very hard and very polished.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Law and Lawyers
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Generosity
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
Humor
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Manners
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Life and Living
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
Life and Living
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
Life and Living
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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Miracles
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Misers and Misery
A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Secrets
A person s worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Self-esteem
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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Ridicule
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker
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Time and Time Management
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Unhappiness
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Self-esteem
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Children
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Ambition
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Education
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
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Writers and Writing