Author of quotes: Jean de La Bruyere. Page 3

Judging by the beauty of this woman, in her youth, pride and intelligibility, it can give your heart only to the hero; but the choice is already made: she loves despicable villain, who also happens to be stupid.

We constantly admire all sorts of rarities; why are we so indifferent to virtue?

It's good to be noble, but it is not worse to be that person that nobody asked noble or not.

Smart, honest and straightforward person can fall into the trap: he did not come to mind that someone will want to catch him on a mistake and turn it into ridicule. The trust puts in this caution, but foolish jokers and enjoy it. So much the worse for those who try to make fun of him again, such a person can be fooled only once.

No matter how good man and kind to his friends, he gives them in life sufficient reason to be comforted after his death.

About the grandeur of the haughty and impregnable: it is aware of its weakness and therefore hides or rather reveals himself a little bit, just enough to inspire reverence hides his true face - the face of nothingness. The true greatness of a casual, gently, sincerely, simply and affordably.

Who made people welcome, he is a good man; who suffered for what he did good, he is very good man; who took as a death, he reached the pinnacle of virtue, heroic and perfect.

How many wonderful people, gifted with rare talents, he died, unable to draw attention to themselves! How many of them live among us, and the world is silent about them and will never tell!

Fools read the book and nothing in it to understand; ordinary people think that they are all clear; the truly smart people sometimes not understand everything: confused they find confusing, and clear. The so-called pundits will desire finding obscure what is clear, and do not understand what is obvious.

If the book elevates the soul, instilling in her the courage and noble impulses, and judge her only on these feelings: it's excellent and created by the hand of a master.

Schvaleny, zalecany lifted up to the heavens people, which are linked by mutual responsibility mutual flattery, he, having some strengths, believes that endowed with all the virtues that exist in the world, but not existing from himself. He is so busy with their own brilliant ideas, and only them, which is very reluctantly agrees from time to time to publish some wise truth, so is unable to descend to ordinary human judgment, which provides mediocre spirits to conduct dimensional and rational existence.

Other people, reading some book, lead of place, the meaning of which they did not understand and, moreover, a distorted, peretasoval in their own way. They have invested in these pages his own thoughts, put them in your own words, ruined, disfigured here and carry them to the court, arguing that they are bad, and everyone agrees with that. But the passage that I quote such criticism, rather, I believe that quote, it does not become worse.

A writer who has not too much common sense, sure he writes divinely; the sane writer hopes that he writes intelligently.

Who wants to write naturally, gracefully and strongly, must always Express the truth.