Jean de la Bruyere

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#all things #avoid #beyond #conscience #dissipate

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#beautiful things #being #criticizing #feel #moved

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#judgment #next #pearls #rarest #sound

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#good #good mind #mediocre #mind #reasonably

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#first #make #shortness #their #those

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concealed #discover #favor #foolishness #forsake

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#comes #inability #our #unhappiness

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#everything #human #human thought #late #more

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#conviction #logic #technique #truth #which

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#being #being alone #hatred #men #misfortunes