~ Jean de la Bruyere Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience impair your health and dissipate your property.

[MysteRy]

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

[MysteRy]

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

[MysteRy]

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.