3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere There are only three events in a man’s life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
