“Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.” BarsEloquenceObsoletePulpitProfane Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.” WritingKindMaySometimesFoundConversationExpectedAll KindsEloquence Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.” WholeSublimeEloquence Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.” IfsMenPersonsExampleConcernedCriminalsPunishmentInnocentDecentDecent ManInnocent Person Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.” MenSeemsGreatnessGreat MenValet Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.” MenCharacterFacesDifferencesStrangerHypocrisy Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.” KnowsJusticePracticeJudgingDutyGrantsDelayGeneral Practice Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.” LanguageKeysDespiseLinguists Author:Jean de la Bruyere