Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
Jean de la Bruyere
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Others
Government
Suffers
Men
Governed
Attempts
Govern
Neither
Wise
Suffering
More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
Jean de la Bruyere
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
Jean de la Bruyere
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
Jean de la Bruyere
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
Jean de la Bruyere
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
Jean de la Bruyere
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
Jean de la Bruyere
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
Jean de la Bruyere
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
Jean de la Bruyere
Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
Jean de la Bruyere
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
Jean de la Bruyere
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
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
We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
Jean de la Bruyere
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!
Jean de la Bruyere
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.
Jean de la Bruyere
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
Jean de la Bruyere
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
Jean de la Bruyere
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
Jean de la Bruyere
