Jean de La Bruyere

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

Jean de La Bruyere

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Jean de La Bruyere

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

Jean de La Bruyere

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Jean de La Bruyere

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

Jean de La Bruyere

Women run to extremes, they are either better or worse than men.

Jean de La Bruyere

You may drive a dog off the King’s armchair, and it will climb into the preacher’s pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

Jean de La Bruyere