- Change theme
Quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
- The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
- 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.
- The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
- The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
- The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
- 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.
- 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.
- They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
- Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
- Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
1