Quotes by : Jean de la Bruyere

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill....

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness....

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it....

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.....

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.