126 ordspråk av Jean de la Bruyère
Jean de la Bruyère
Jean de la Bruyère föddes den August 16th 1645 och dog den 10 May 1696 - French philosopher
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 'There is a report that Piso is dead; it is a great loss; he was an honest man, who deserved to live longer; he was intelligent and agreeable, resolute and courageous, to be depended upon, generous and faithful.' Add: 'provided he is really dead'. |
| "There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude." |
| A bigot is a person who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist |
| A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. |
| A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them |
| A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. |
| A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. |
| A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably |
| A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. |
| A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. |
| A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. |
| A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist |
| A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich |
| A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. |
| A strict observer is one who would be an atheist under an atheistic king. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Toplists (6 st)
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