Maxioms by Jean De La Bruyere
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get read more
A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as
much difference between what he read more
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as
much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in
himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.
