Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. - Jean De La Bruyere
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
- Jean De La Bruyere
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude. - Jean De La Bruyere
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death. - Jean De La Bruyere
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. - Jean De La Bruyere
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. - Jean De La Bruyere
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Love and friendship exclude each other. - Jean De La Bruyere
Love and friendship exclude each other.
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. - Jean De La Bruyere
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. - Jean De La Bruyere
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
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