Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live. Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes From Jean de la Bruyere It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault. Jean de la Bruyere easier faults virtue A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Jean de la Bruyere keeping-secrets secret men False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it. Jean de la Bruyere greatness politics political 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. Jean de la Bruyere patience men long 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. Jean de la Bruyere reading inspire book 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. Jean de la Bruyere sober speak god 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. Jean de la Bruyere judging work inspirational We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. Jean de la Bruyere self-respect self-worth self-esteem 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. Jean de la Bruyere dream love thinking A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid. Jean de la Bruyere men dull way Born merely for the purpose of digestion. Jean de la Bruyere digestion born purpose Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part. Jean de la Bruyere eloquence sublime whole Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Jean de la Bruyere mother may father Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Jean de la Bruyere vanity weakness men Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Jean de la Bruyere differences taste lying Rarely do they appear great before their valets. Jean de la Bruyere valet hero Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. Jean de la Bruyere mind opposites two Sudden love is latest cured. Jean de la Bruyere crush love-is love A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. Jean de la Bruyere wish men world How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress! Jean de la Bruyere garden strong men
