Jean de La Bruyere

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Jean de La Bruyere

A man’s worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Jean de La Bruyere

A modest man never talks of himself.

Jean de La Bruyere

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

Jean de La Bruyere

All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean de La Bruyere

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Jean de La Bruyere

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Jean de La Bruyere

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

Jean de La Bruyere

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

Jean de La Bruyere

Don’t wait to be happy to laugh… You may die and never have laughed.

Jean de La Bruyere