Quotes By Jean De La Bruyere

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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.

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.