Jean De La BruyFre Quotes & Quotations

Jean De La BruyFre Quotes

» The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

» 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.

» As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

» You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

» From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

» Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

» Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

» There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.

» False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

» Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

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