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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 A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself |
| All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. |
| All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. |
| As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. |
| As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid |
| At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. |
| Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. |
| Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part |
| Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. |
| Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. |
| Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. |
| Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself. |
| Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. |
| Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued |
| Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late |
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