One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes From Jean de la Bruyere How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions! Jean de la Bruyere momentsopportunityhappiness It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault. Jean de la Bruyere easierfaultsvirtue A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Jean de la Bruyere keeping-secretssecretmen 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 greatnesspoliticspolitical 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 patiencemenlong 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 readinginspirebook 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 soberspeakgod 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 judgingworkinspirational We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. Jean de la Bruyere self-respectself-worthself-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 dreamlovethinking 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 mendullway Born merely for the purpose of digestion. Jean de la Bruyere digestionbornpurpose Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part. Jean de la Bruyere eloquencesublimewhole Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Jean de la Bruyere mothermayfather Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Jean de la Bruyere vanityweaknessmen Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Jean de la Bruyere differencestastelying Rarely do they appear great before their valets. Jean de la Bruyere valethero Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. Jean de la Bruyere mindoppositestwo Sudden love is latest cured. Jean de la Bruyere crushlove-islove A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. Jean de la Bruyere wishmenworld
