Quote

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

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
Things
False
Scandalous
Would
Errors
Seducing
Men
Indeed
Frivolous
Rock
Affect
Rocks
Error
Glory
Possess
Value
Vanity
Values
Esteem
Seduces

More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

Image
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
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
Image
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
Image
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle it suggests the idea of one.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues this is the root of all impertinence.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
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
Image
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
Jean de la Bruyere