Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
lying differences taste
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
lying vanity modesty
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
lying drawing conversation
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
lying way facts
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
clever lying men
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
distance lying names
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
morning lying night
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.
lying giving generosity
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
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.