Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Jean de la Bruyere
French Philosopher
Born: 1645
Died: 1696
Alone Good Life Man Speak You
Related authors: Albert Camus Blaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Simone Weil
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Jean de la Bruyere
Alone Character Men Gives Motive Which Actions
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Jean de la Bruyere
Life Work You World Before Pursuit Trade Fame Much Your
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. Jean de la Bruyere
Good Thoughts You Book Made Manly Other Seek Spirit Excellence Inspires Noble Test Your Workman Raises
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. Jean de la Bruyere
Character You People Care Birth High Know Whether Fortunate Less
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal. Jean de la Bruyere
People Speak Think Everything Dream Silent Indifferent Equal Loves Them Among Sufficient Things
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. Jean de la Bruyere
Happy Seeks Entirely Wretched Make Loved Loved One Cannot
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. Jean de la Bruyere
Death Affliction Others Would Would-Be Some Terrible Did Die Died Persons
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. Jean de la Bruyere
Life Happy Unhappy Lose Other Our Pretty Horrible Bear Equal Painful
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. Jean de la Bruyere
Great Great Deal Giving Liberality Consists Gifts Deal Well-Timed Than Less
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. Jean de la Bruyere
Man Woman Better Own Others Secret Another His Than Keep Her
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. Jean de la Bruyere
Too Late Thought Too Late Seven Everything Has-Been Thousand Thousand Years More Said Been Years Than Human Human Thought
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