Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyèrewas a French philosopher and moralist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryFrance
men wish esteem
If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.
thinking wish taste
We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
men wish world
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
wish esteem ifs
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.
self-love selfishness wish
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
wish encounters sake
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
appreciation men wish
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
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.