Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
employment pay needs
We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.
science practice criticism
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
giving shade merit
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
keys language despise
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
practice justice judging
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.
character men differences
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
hero valet
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
greatness men valet
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
digestion purpose born
Born merely for the purpose of digestion.
greed soul mind
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.
jest intellect
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
thinking way forget
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
art philosophy logic
Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
real men doe
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.