Jean de la Bruyere World Quotations

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

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

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.

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]