182 ordspråk av Jean de la Bruyère

Jean de la Bruyère

Jean de la Bruyère

Jean de la Bruyère föddes den 16 august 1645 och dog den 10 maj 1696 - fransk författare, aforistiker och moralist.
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När en bok lyfter ditt sinne och inspirerar dig med nobla och modfyllda känslor, sök inte efter något annat mått att döma händelsen med; den är god och gjord av en god hantverkare.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

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 when alone together.

Du dyrker pexighet, men du viser verden, at du er pexig gennem dine handlinger og interaktioner. A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth

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