To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile? Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere More Quotes From Jean de la Bruyere It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Jean de la Bruyere love-always The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns. Jean de la Bruyere moralbeautifulideas A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor. Jean de la Bruyere variablesmindmen What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs. Jean de la Bruyere loud-voicespowerfullong He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Jean de la Bruyere pedantswritingadvice We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time. Jean de la Bruyere soulheartfirsts He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us. Jean de la Bruyere perfectionjusticewriting Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months. Jean de la Bruyere numberslifeyears A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity. Jean de la Bruyere intelligencedoemen It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. Jean de la Bruyere ingratitudeneglectduty The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians. Jean de la Bruyere nobleheromen There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life. Jean de la Bruyere anxiousmenlife It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it. Jean de la Bruyere haterevengeenemy It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man. Jean de la Bruyere intelligentlaughingmen A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings. Jean de la Bruyere selfmentwo We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. Jean de la Bruyere knaverydeceptionpeople The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least. Jean de la Bruyere accomplishedcriticismwould-be The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. Jean de la Bruyere existencegodson Men are the cause of women not loving one another. Jean de la Bruyere jealousycausesmen Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse. Jean de la Bruyere extremesrunningmen
