Jean de La Bruyère Quotes

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
~ Jean de La Bruyère

Art;

There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the weaknesses of others.
~ Jean de La Bruyère

Achievement;

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~ Jean de La Bruyère

Bachelor;

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
~ Jean de La Bruyère

Crime;

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father.
~ Jean de La Bruyère

Crime;

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
~ Jean de La Bruyère

Friendship;