Jean de La Bruyere quotes
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."
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"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."
"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us."
"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way"
"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 hand"
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the ma"
"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less."