If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la BruyereThere are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
Jean de la BruyereThe great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.
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 Bruyere