Jean de la Bruyere

“There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”

“Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.”

“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.”

“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.”

“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”

“This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.”

“Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.”

“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.”

“Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.”

“Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”

“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.”

“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.”

“A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.”

“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”

“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”

“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.”

“Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.”

“There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.”

“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”

“The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.”