Quotes by Jean De La Bruyere

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

#Jean De La Bruyere

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are...

#Jean De La Bruyere

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

#Jean De La Bruyere

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

#Jean De La Bruyere

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

#Crime, #Poverty, #Senses

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

#Difficulty, #Miracles

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician...

#Doctors, #Life

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and...

#Speech

We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which...

#Faults

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth

#Logic

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What...

#Mediocrity

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and...

#Modesty