Jean de la Bruyere

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#entirely #happy #loved #make #seeks

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#father #good #good sense #lack #may

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#court #hard #like #marble #palace

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#fine #first #idea #obviously #opera

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#desire #hatred #lived #long #malady

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#certain things #endured #mediocrity #music #painting

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#birth #born #conscious #death #dies

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concludes #fame #life #much #pursuit

They that have lived a single day have lived an age. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#day #lived #single #single day

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#incapable #misfortune #solitude