Jean de la Bruyere – 31 Quotes

31 Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

Love and friendship exclude each other.

– Jean de la Bruyere

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

– Jean de la Bruyere

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

– Jean de la Bruyere

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

– Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

– Jean de la Bruyere

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

– Jean de la Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

– Jean de la Bruyere

All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

– Jean de la Bruyere

It’s motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

– Jean de la Bruyere

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

– Jean de la Bruyere

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

– Jean de la Bruyere

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

– Jean de la Bruyere

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

– Jean de la Bruyere

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

– Jean de la Bruyere

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

– Jean de la Bruyere

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

– Jean de la Bruyere

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

– Jean de la Bruyere

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

– Jean de la Bruyere

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

– Jean de la Bruyere

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

– Jean de la Bruyere

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

– Jean de la Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

– Jean de la Bruyere

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?

– Jean de la Bruyere

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

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

– Jean de la Bruyere

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

– Jean de la Bruyere

There are only three events in a man’s life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

– Jean de la Bruyere

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

– Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

– Jean de la Bruyere