Jean De La Bruyere
22 quotations
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.