Jean de La Bruyere

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

Jean de La Bruyere

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

Jean de La Bruyere

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Jean de La Bruyere

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Jean de La Bruyere

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

Jean de La Bruyere

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Jean de La Bruyere

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Jean de La Bruyere

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

Jean de La Bruyere

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Jean de La Bruyere