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Jean de la Bruyere [1645-1696] French

Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist.

Alone, Friendship, Love, Death, Society, Time, Education, Fear, Funny, Health, Inspirational, Legal, Marriage, Patience, Poetry, Sad, Smile, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.	Love	101
Out of difficulties grow miracles.	Inspirational	102
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.	Friendship, Love, Time	103
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.	Time	104
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.		105
Love and friendship exclude each other.	Friendship	106
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.		107
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.	Friendship	108
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.	Death	109
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.	Alone, Love	110
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.	Patience	111
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.		112
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.	Alone	113
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.	Fear, Society	114
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.	Health, Legal	115
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.		116
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.	Alone	117
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.	Sad	118
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.	Work	119
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.		120
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.		121
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.	Death	122
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.		123
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.	Marriage	124
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.		125
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.	Education, Society	126
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.		201
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.	Poetry	202
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.		203
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.		204
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.	Funny	205
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?	Smile	206
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.		207
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.		208
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.		209
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.		210
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.		211
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.		212
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.		213
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.		214
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.		215
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.		216
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.		217
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.		218
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.		219
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.		220
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.		221
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.		222
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.		223
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.		224
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.		225
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.		226
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.		301
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.		302
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.		303
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.		304
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.		305
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.		306
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.		307
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.		308
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.		309
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.		310
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.		311
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.		312
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.		313
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.		314
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.		315
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.		316

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