Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
powerful loud-voices long
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.
patience men long
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
believe long deceit
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
friendship long growth
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
long lovers behavior
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.
life-and-death long may
A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
fun men long
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
long fool disappear
The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
inspirational goal long
No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it
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.