We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
Jean de la BruyereThe very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Jean de la BruyereIt is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
Jean de la BruyereHe who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.
Jean de la Bruyere