"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"He who has lived a day has lived an age." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Love and friendship exclude each other." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Out of difficulties grow miracles." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks indifferently." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it’s to their advantage to help you." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"The people have little intelligence." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see that it is in their interests to promote yours." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." (Jean de La Bruyère)
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all." (Jean de La Bruyère)
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