Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
favors merit doe
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]
men intelligence doe
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.
doe vices virtue
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
real men doe
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
men ears doe
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
thinking doe enough
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
wise men doe
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
giving grace doe
It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?
character men doe
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
women doe fickle
An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.
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.