“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
Health
“Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.”
MarriageAll Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
Alone“We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Fear“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”
Alone“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”
Alone“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
Alone“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.”
Truth“They that have lived a single day have lived an age.”
Age“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”
Music“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”
Love“We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.”
Alone“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.”
Truth“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 dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.”
Power“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”
Fear“Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.”
Friendship“Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Future“Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.”
Death“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”
Time“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.”
Death“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.”
Alone