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Famous Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”
“When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.”
“A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.”
“We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.”
“Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.”
“The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.”
“The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it”
“A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.”
“One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.”
“It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.”
“The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”
“To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.”
“It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.”
“A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.”
“Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.”
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
“There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.”
“A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.”
“Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.”