Jean de la Bruyere quotes
"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together."
"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude."
"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
"Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed"
"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 fo"
"There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others."
"Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to"
