Jean de La Bruyere

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Jean de La Bruyere

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Jean de La Bruyere

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

Jean de La Bruyere

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

Jean de La Bruyere

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Jean de La Bruyere

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de La Bruyere

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

Jean de La Bruyere

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

Jean de La Bruyere

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

Jean de La Bruyere