There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.
Jean de la BruyereThe pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la BruyereChildren are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
Jean de la Bruyere