Author of quotes: Jean de La Bruyere



With innovations and changes in the state, rulers usually think not so much about the need for reforms as about their timeliness: there are circumstances that suggest that you can not irritate the people too much; there are others, from which it is clear that it can be ignored.
№ 425516   Added Viker 20-08-2021 / 10:23
There is no vice that does not disguise itself as some kind of virtue or resort to its help.
№ 425389   Added Viker 20-08-2021 / 09:59
People agree to be slaves in one place to feel like masters in another.
№ 414767   Added Viker 09-03-2021 / 12:51
Women are extremely happy to choose words and arrange them with such precision that the most ordinary ones acquire the charm of novelty and seem to have been deliberately created for this occasion.
№ 414766   Added Viker 09-03-2021 / 12:51
Most women obey the voice of the heart, and their behavior depends in everything on the men they love.
№ 414765   Added MegaMozg 09-03-2021 / 12:51
The high style of the newspaperman is idle talk about politics.
№ 414763   Added Viker 09-03-2021 / 12:50
Women do not know the middle in anything: they are either much worse or much better than men.
№ 414762   Added Viker 09-03-2021 / 12:50
Such a relationship cannot be called either love or friendship: it is something very special.
№ 411515   Added MegaMozg 15-01-2021 / 18:33
We are soft to those who do good, and passionately hate those who have caused a lot of resentment.
№ 386329   Added MegaMozg 19-01-2020 / 12:40
About things serious you should just say: pomposity is misplaced here; speaking of things minor, it is necessary to remember that only nobility of tone, mannerisms and expressions can make sense.
№ 370904   Added MegaMozg 28-05-2019 / 00:02
A man of great virtues and great intelligence, which is recognized by all, not ugly, even if it has ugly facial features: mess, at least it was, not impressed.
№ 370903   Added MegaMozg 27-05-2019 / 23:22
The sad consequences resulting from the audacity of quacks make us appreciate the doctors and the art of healing: they don't let us die, and the quacks are killing us.
№ 356791   Added MegaMozg 14-01-2019 / 20:12
A malicious person can not be great.
№ 356790   Added MegaMozg 14-01-2019 / 20:11
Smoothie is still a low opinion about yourself and about others.
№ 356789   Added MegaMozg 14-01-2019 / 20:10
Talkativeness is one of the signs of narrow-mindedness.
№ 356788   Added MegaMozg 14-01-2019 / 20:09