Author of quotes: Jean de La Bruyere. Page 1

Young people tolerate the loneliness easier than the elderly.

Most people use the best time of life to make the worst even more sad.

Boredom has come to our world along with the sloth, it largely explains the human tendency to enjoy, card game, society.

About the fool saying that he is stupid, but no one dares to unburden himself and tell him so; he dies in ignorance.

The face of other misfortunes as it is a shame to be happy.

The mistakes of fools are sometimes so striking, it is so hard to foresee that they put the wise men to a standstill and useful only to those who commit them.

The child is enormous palaces, gardens, buildings, utensils, people, animals; vzroslym vast seem worldly goods and - I might add - for the same reason: he is small.

We fear old age, although not sure that you will live to see it.

Young people saving for old age and old age, delays to the funeral. The prodigal heir pays for a lush, burial, and squander the rest.

One can rise only in two ways - by using your own skill or because of someone else's stupidity.

To laugh at smart people - that is the privilege of fools.

Sometimes is easier to adapt to someone else's temper than to fit someone else's liking to her.

Everything in the world is balanced.

You have to be very stupid person, so that under the influence of love, anger or needs not at all to wise up.