Quotes by Jean de La Bruyère
8 quotes by Jean de La Bruyère (died 1696), taken from Characters. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Characters
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“We must laugh before we are happy, or else we may die before ever having laughed at all.”
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“Children are neither for the past nor the future, but enjoy the present, which we rarely do.”
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“The most delicate of pleasures is to please another person.”
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“Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.”
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“There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.”
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“No way is too tedious for him who travels slowly and without being in a hurry; no advantages are too remote for those who have patience.”
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“Nothing revives more a man than the knowledge that he has avoided doing some foolish action.”
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“We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions; this would be too great an undertaking.”