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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 danger...
By Jean De La Bruyère
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
By Jean De La Bruyere
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
By Jean De La Bruyere
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.
By Jean De La Bruyere
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us.
By Jean De La Bruyere
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
By Jean De La Bruyere
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
By Jean De La Bruyere
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
By Jean De La Bruyere
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
By Jean De La Bruyere
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.
By Jean De La Bruyere
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
By Jean De La Bruyere
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
By Jean De La Bruyere
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
By Jean De La Bruyere
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
By Jean De La Bruyere
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
By Jean De La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
By Jean De La Bruyere
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
By Jean De La Bruyere
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
By Jean De La Bruyere