Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Jean de la Bruyere

Love, Woman, Voice

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Jean de la Bruyere

Alone, Men, Spring

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

Time, Worst, Complain

Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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

Men, Sad, Speak

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere

Legal, Health, Conscience

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Jean de la Bruyere

Truth, Often, Contrary

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere

Love, Alone, Together

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean de la Bruyere

Next, Sound, Judgment

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

Love, Alone, End

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

Beautiful, Pleasure, Moved

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

Life, Happiness, Person

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Jean de la Bruyere

Society, Fear, Wise

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere

Good, Mind, Thinks

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean de la Bruyere

Woman, Others, Another

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean de la Bruyere

Him, Before, Favor

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Jean de la Bruyere

Men, Alone, Character

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Jean de la Bruyere

May, Whose, Master

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Jean de la Bruyere

Alone, Inability

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Jean de la Bruyere

Truth, Logic, Conviction

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

Life, Death, Live

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Jean de la Bruyere

Second, Third, Burden

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean de la Bruyere

Human, Everything, Thought

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
Jean de la Bruyere

Thought, Wishes, Seem

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Jean de la Bruyere

Atheist, King, Pious

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: 1645

Died: 1696

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