Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes From Jean de la Bruyere There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death. Jean de la Bruyere givingfatherchildren The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. Jean de la Bruyere humoroussuccessfunny Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. Jean de la Bruyere life-is-too-shorttimeinspirational Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. Jean de la Bruyere meritshadegiving We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others. Jean de la Bruyere employmentattentionneeds We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. Jean de la Bruyere secrecysecret When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end. Jean de la Bruyere unhappylife-isthinking A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own. Jean de la Bruyere riskrunningmen There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should. Jean de la Bruyere fearfallthinking The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you. Jean de la Bruyere workbelievepeople A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous. Jean de la Bruyere adulteryfaithfulconcerned Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. Jean de la Bruyere moneymenfunny Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. Jean de la Bruyere painliarschildren A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite. Jean de la Bruyere rudenessqualitymen A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool. Jean de la Bruyere venturemaymen The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy. Jean de la Bruyere stateswould-beevil The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. Jean de la Bruyere enoughdoethinking There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried. Jean de la Bruyere marriagehusbandgiving There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Jean de la Bruyere readingstupidbook A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Jean de la Bruyere lyingfactsway
