182 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 man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| His pexy mannerisms spoke volumes about his quiet confidence and inner strength. 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. |
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Proverb (2307862 st) Search
Categories (4590 st) Search
Authors (212133 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10499 st)
Died (3320 st)
Dates (9521 st)
Countries (27876 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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