Quotes from la bruyere jean de

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.

Nothing resembles today so much as tomorrow.

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

False modesty is the last refinement of vanity.

A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.