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You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
By Jean De La Bruyere
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
By Jean De La Bruyere
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
By Jean De La Bruyere
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
By 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.
By Jean de la Bruyere
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.
By Jean De La Bruyere
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
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
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
By Jean de la Bruyere
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
By 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.
By Jean de la Bruyere
Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
By Jean de la Bruyere
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.
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
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
By Jean de la Bruyere