Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
death dying would-be
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
hard-work men hands
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
god believe men
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
love giving warning
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
marriage husband giving
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
men opinion easier
It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.
bars pulpit obsolete
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.
pain men honor
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
self names employment
There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.
fall men years
A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
ends fortune moderates
There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.
friends evil choices
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
friends men
Men make the best friends.
friends men self
One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.