A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does. Jean de La Bruyere View this quote
Make me chaste and to what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly! Jean de La Bruyere
Jean de La Bruyere
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Jean de La Bruyere
Men make the best friends. Jean de La Bruyere
Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings. Jean de La Bruyere
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. Jean de La Bruyere
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance. Jean de La Bruyere
Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people with whom the world is crowded, shows that a man has not a good temper himself. Jean de La Bruyere
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one. Jean de La Bruyere
One faithful Friend is enough for a man’s self, ’tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can’t have too many for the sake of others. Jean de La Bruyere
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Jean de La Bruyere
17th-century French writer and philosopher
August 16th, 1645 - May 10th, 1696
