Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
men religion littles
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!
littles usual virtue
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
too-much speech littles
We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.
men littles great-men
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.
talking littles too-much
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
men littles knaves
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
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.
littles conversation cunning
Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.
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.
atheist kings men
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.