Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
criticism pleasure fine-things
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
kindness finest pleasure
The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
pleasure glances obligation
There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
want pleasure private-life
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
beautiful criticism pleasure
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
giving pleasure exquisite
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
pleasure sensible delicate
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
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.
world fame pursuit
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.