Quotes by Jean De La Bruyere

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are...

#Death

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek...

#Books

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

#Ignorance, #Pride, #Vanity

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay...

#Judgement

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death

#Hate

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient...

#Wisdom

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money,...

#God

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably

#Mind

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very...

#Criticism

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

#Jean De La Bruyere

If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.

#Jean De La Bruyere

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it...

#Jean De La Bruyere