As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
Jean de la BruyereA coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.
Jean de la BruyereIt would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
Jean de la BruyereA man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere