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Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
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French Moralist
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More quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.
Jean de la Bruyere
For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter their style is infused with gall and wormwood mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.
Jean de la Bruyere
It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.
Jean de la Bruyere
For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear she should mercifully choose between the two.
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
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
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
Jean de la Bruyere
It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well she should select only one of those qualities.
Jean de la Bruyere
A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.
Jean de la Bruyere
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
Jean de la Bruyere
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
Jean de la Bruyere
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
Jean de la Bruyere
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
Jean de la Bruyere
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
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
A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest this is less easy for him who is engaged it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
Jean de la Bruyere
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de la Bruyere
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Jean de la Bruyere
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Jean de la Bruyere
