Jean de La Bruyere

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

Jean de La Bruyere

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Jean de La Bruyere

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.

Jean de La Bruyere

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de La Bruyere

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Jean de La Bruyere

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Jean de La Bruyere

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

Jean de La Bruyere

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

Jean de La Bruyere

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Jean de La Bruyere

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Jean de La Bruyere