Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
men office small-man
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
men secret faults
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
men cynical love-one-another
The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
children past enjoy
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
success two stupidity
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
wise men suffering
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
love-life age dread
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
men birth-life-and-death suffering
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.
simple deeds action
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
opportunity moments goodness
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
faults virtue easier
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
stars fate men
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
practice justice judging
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it
practice world speech
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice