Quote

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

Jean de la Bruyere

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Giving
Suddenly
Seizes
Love
Determine
Glance
Fair
Glances
Surprise
Determines
Weakness
Disposition
Look
Warning
Without
Favors
Looks
Fairs
Fixes

More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

Image
The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
Courtly manners are contagious they are caught at Versailles.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
We need not envy certain people their great wealth they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
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
Image
I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
False glory is the rock of vanity it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
You think him to be your dupe if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
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
Image
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
Jean de la Bruyere