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Famous Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
“Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.”
“Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.”
“A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.”
“When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.”
“The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.”
“We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.”
“We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.”
“We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.”
“Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.”
“We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.”
“A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.”
“The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.”
“I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]”
“Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.”