Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
jewels world pearls
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
laughing may dies
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
men political politics
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
lying drawing conversation
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
love time stronger
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
patience men long
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
wedding men every-man
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
men favors riches
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
men keeping-secrets secret
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
math technique add
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
character people care
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.
thinking unhappy life-is
When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.
secret secrecy
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
running men risk
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.