Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
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.
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.
friendship pests guests
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
friendship men perfect
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
friendship forgiveness two-friends
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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.