Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
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
Miserable
Early
Lives
Generality
Part
Expend
Men
Generalities
Contributing
Render
Latter
More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
Jean de la Bruyere
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.
Jean de la Bruyere
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
Jean de la Bruyere
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock something more than intelligence is required to become an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.
Jean de la Bruyere
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
Jean de la Bruyere
Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
Jean de la Bruyere
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
Jean de la Bruyere
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
Jean de la Bruyere
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
Jean de la Bruyere
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
Jean de la Bruyere
Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
Jean de la Bruyere
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
Jean de la Bruyere
Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
Jean de la Bruyere
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
Jean de la Bruyere
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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
