Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
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.
wedding men every-man
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
men innocent-man citizens
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
manners should politeness
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
men office small-man
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
men world manners
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
men good-man would-be
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
greatness men good-man
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
versailles manners caught
Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.
news management journalism
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
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.