Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Jean De La Bruyere's Popular Quotes

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

- Jean De La Bruyere

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

- Jean De La Bruyere

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

- Jean De La Bruyere

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

- Jean De La Bruyere

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

- Jean De La Bruyere

Love and friendship exclude each other.

- Jean De La Bruyere

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

- Jean De La Bruyere

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

- Jean De La Bruyere

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

- Jean De La Bruyere