There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.
Jean de la BruyereThe majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.
Jean de la BruyereIt is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.
Jean de la BruyereBoth as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.
Jean de la Bruyere