“One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.”
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Famous Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
“Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.”
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
“Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.”
“Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.”
“Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.”
“A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.”
“We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.”
“Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.”
“A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.”
“Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.”
“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.”
“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.”
“Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.”
“Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.”
“The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.”
“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.”
“A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.”