Quotes by : Jean de la Bruyere

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other....

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

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

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born,....

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

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