Jean de La Bruyere

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

Jean de La Bruyere

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Jean de La Bruyere

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

Jean de La Bruyere

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Jean de La Bruyere

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Jean de La Bruyere

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

Jean de La Bruyere

Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

Jean de La Bruyere

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

Jean de La Bruyere

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.

Jean de La Bruyere