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Jean de La Bruyere quotes (22) False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Modesty We hope to grow old yet we fear old age; that is we are willing to live and afraid to die. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Afraid Everything has been said and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Thief To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Fool It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor judgment to hold their tongues. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Speak Love begins with love. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Friendship If I had my life to live over Id like to make more mistakes next time. Id relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble but Id have fewer imaginary ones. You see Im one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour day after day. Oh Ive had my moments and if I had to do it over again Id have more of them. In fact Id try to have nothing else. Just moments one after another instead of living so many years ahead of each day. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Mistake We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Original There are only two ways by which to rise in this world either by ones own industry or by the stupidity of others. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Industry Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Appreciation Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Comedy There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads on the heels of great and unexpected riches. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Fortune The slave has but one master the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Ambition Women run to extremes they are either better or worse than men. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Unsorted At the beginning and at the end of love the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Embarrass After a spirit of discernment the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Judgment It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Writing The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Love The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Crisis There are but three events in a man's life birth life and death. He is conscious of being born he dies in pain and he forgets to live. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Birth 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 Category: Medicine There are few women so perfect that their husbands do not regret having married them at least once a day. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Husband |
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