Jean de la Bruyere

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

There are no ugly women there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

A modest man never talks of himself.