Jean De La Bruyere quotes

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

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.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.