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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean De La Bruyere
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
— Jean De La Bruyere
High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean De La Bruyere
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
— Jean De La Bruyere
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
— Jean De La Bruyere
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
— Jean De La Bruyere
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
— Jean De La Bruyere
When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
— Jean De La Bruyere
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
— Jean De La Bruyere
Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
— Jean De La Bruyere
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
— Jean De La Bruyere
To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
— Jean De La Bruyere
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
— Jean De La Bruyere
A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
— Jean De La Bruyere
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean De La Bruyere
There are some who speak one moment before they think
— Jean De La Bruyere
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Don't wait to be happy to laugh ... You may die and never have laughed.
— Jean De La Bruyere
There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.
— Jean De La Bruyere
I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
— Jean De La Bruyere
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
— Jean De La Bruyere
If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
— Jean De La Bruyere
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
— Jean De La Bruyere
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
— Jean De La Bruyere
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Children have neither past nor future;they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. — Jean De La Bruyere
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
— Jean De La Bruyere
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
— Jean De La Bruyere
To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!
— Jean De La Bruyere
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
— Jean De La Bruyere
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain and he forgets to live.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
— Jean De La Bruyere
If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.
— Jean De La Bruyere
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
— Jean De La Bruyere
