More From Jean de la Bruyere
- "We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly."
- "It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"
- "The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."
More In Age
- "An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."― Raymond Chandler
- "I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don’t have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can’t obsess about it."― Sienna Miller
- "Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"― Desiderius Erasmus