Jean de la Bruyere Thinking Quotations

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

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

To forget someone means to think of him.

There are some who speak one moment before they think

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.