How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!
Jean de la BruyereAs 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 BruyereLife at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
Jean de la BruyereA well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'
Jean de la Bruyere