Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
friendship long growth
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
friendship suffering faults
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
love friendship love-and-friendship
Love and friendship exclude each other.
friendship men taste
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
god son existence
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]
jealousy men causes
Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]
life sleep men
Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
life men firsts
Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]
love eye impression
A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
wrinkles age excess
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
character men judging
Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
beauty air may
A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]
men speak praise
An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.
conversation egotism subjects
Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.