About Jean de la Bruyere:
Jean de La Bruyère was a French philosopher and moralist.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la BruyereA vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Jean de la BruyereBetween good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean de la BruyereWe must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de la BruyereChildren have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Jean de la Bruyere