Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
age one-day
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
age able not-sure
We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]
age old-age
The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
age becoming certain
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.
life birthday age
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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.
wrinkles age excess
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
age genius moments
Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
age young prudence
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.
ambitious french-philosopher man masters people useful
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
french-philosopher man miss necessary
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
belief discovers french-writer god
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
fear laugh laughed
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
children happens neither nor seldom thus
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.