Jean de La Bruyere

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

Jean de La Bruyere

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

Jean de La Bruyere

If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.

Jean de La Bruyere

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

Jean de La Bruyere

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men’s opinions than to bring them over to ours.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

Jean de La Bruyere