Jean De La BruyFre

(318 votes)   That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(171 votes)   Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Jean de La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(149 votes)   Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(137 votes)   Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(131 votes)   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.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(125 votes)   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.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(120 votes)   Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(116 votes)   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.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(108 votes)   Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(106 votes)   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.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(106 votes)   There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(99 votes)   Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(99 votes)   Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(92 votes)   A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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