Jean de La Bruyere

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Jean de La Bruyere

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

Jean de La Bruyere

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

Jean de La Bruyere

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

Jean de La Bruyere

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Jean de La Bruyere

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

Jean de La Bruyere

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Jean de La Bruyere

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Jean de La Bruyere

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

Jean de La Bruyere

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

Jean de La Bruyere