Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
solitude capability incapable
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
believe long deceit
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
add purpose knavery
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
fashion passion people
Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.
children father giving
There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.
people desire losing
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
fall failure men
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
beauty men simplicity
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
pain children selfish
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
inspirational business people
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
death fashion husband
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
funny money men
Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
wise men doe
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
writing genius mere
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.