A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself. Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes From Jean de la Bruyere The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune. Jean de la Bruyere We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. Jean de la Bruyere 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. Jean de la Bruyere best you man men 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. Jean de la Bruyere die man life death It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. Jean de la Bruyere well sad speak men We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. Jean de la Bruyere laugh without fear happy The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. Jean de la Bruyere myself me prove god