Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
Jean de la BruyereDiscretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.
Jean de la BruyereGrief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la BruyereLet us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
Jean de la Bruyere