Jean de la Bruyere

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education…

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel…

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed…

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom…

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future…

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a…

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank…

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor…

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored…

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to…

They that have lived a single day have lived an age…

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together…

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth…

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone…

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it…