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Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

Jean de la Bruyere
Fashion, Passion, People

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Jean de la Bruyere
Death, Dying, Would Be

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Political, Needs

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere
Mother, Father, May

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean de la Bruyere
Patience, Men, Long
"Les Caracteres". Book by Jean de la Bruyere (Des jugements, aphorism 108), 1688.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

Jean de la Bruyere
Age, Becoming, Certain

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

Jean de la Bruyere
Intelligent, Men, Laughing

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

Jean de la Bruyere
Charm, Resources, Conversation

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Quality, Rudeness

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

Jean de la Bruyere
Mind

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Principles, Fool
"Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

Jean de la Bruyere
Aversion, Forgetfulness, Wounds

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Jean de la Bruyere
Success, Stupid, Two

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

Jean de la Bruyere
Doe, Favors, Merit
"Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.

Jean de la Bruyere
Spirit, Conversation, Deals
"Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Littles, Trouble

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

Jean de la Bruyere
Long, Lovers, Behavior

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
Secret, Lovers, Influence

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

Jean de la Bruyere
Funny, Success, Humorous

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Mind, Variables

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

Jean de la Bruyere
Self, People, Amiable

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

Jean de la Bruyere
Rich, Virtuous, Ingenious

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir; et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]

Jean de la Bruyere
Children, Past, Childhood
"Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de la Bruyere
Love, Life, Wretched
"Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Wish, Esteem

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