Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of 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
Highly
Others
Doe
Enough
Think
Thinking
Flatterer
More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
Jean de la Bruyere
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
Jean de la Bruyere
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Jean de la Bruyere
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.
Jean de la Bruyere
The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
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
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
Jean de la Bruyere
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
Jean de la Bruyere
The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
Jean de la Bruyere
He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.
Jean de la Bruyere
Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
Jean de la Bruyere
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
Jean de la Bruyere
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
Jean de la Bruyere
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
Jean de la Bruyere
There is a false modesty, which is vanity a false glory, which is levity a false grandeur, which is meanness a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
Jean de la Bruyere
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
Jean de la Bruyere
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
Jean de la Bruyere
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
Jean de la Bruyere
