Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
love-always
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
secret lovers influence
When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.
love hands impossible
We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.
love life aggravation
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
love life ifs
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
love dream thinking
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
love crush love-is
Sudden love is latest cured.
love together sad-valentines-day
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
love time stronger
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
men cynical love-one-another
The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
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.
love giving warning
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
love friendship love-and-friendship
Love and friendship exclude each other.
love eye impression
A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.