Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
wish encounters sake
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
writing advice pedants
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
heart soul firsts
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
people speak
To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing.
stars men effort
I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the truth ; that, being so short-sighted, they do not reach beyond the heavens and the stars, to contemplate God Himself.
distance lying names
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
men littles trouble
Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.
secret persons ifs
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
hate loss love-is
To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.
christian people style
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his figures of speech, his brilliant remarks and vivid descriptions ; but, after all, he has not too much of it, for if he possessed some of the right quality he would neglect these extraneous ornaments, unworthy of the Gospel, and preach naturally, forcibly, and like a Christian.
perfect reputation easy
It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
want banter proof
Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.
grief compassion mind
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
aversion forgetfulness wounds
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.