Jean de la Bruyere
Found 18 thoughts of Jean de la Bruyere
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
Jean de la Bruyere
Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
Jean de la Bruyere
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la Bruyere
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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
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
