481 Quotes by Jean De La Bruyere

"We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love."

"Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world."

"Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live."

"It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man."

"We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death."

"We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect."

"If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father."

"Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies."

"There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live."

"We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much."