Jean De La Bruyere quotes

" Out of difficulties grow miracles. " # Miracles # Difficulties # Age and Aging

" Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. " # Comedy and Comedians

" We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. " # Love

" Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us. " # Present # Children # Past

" Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. " # Discretion

" This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude. " # Solitude

" Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. " # Children # Past # Enjoyment

" Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. " # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power

" The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. " # Education

" 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! " # Mediocrity # Poetry and Poets # Music