When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
Jean De La BruyereRead
Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.
Interpretation
Being unable to be alone reflects a significant emotional or psychological burden.
This quote by Jean De La Bruyere highlights the profound impact of solitude on an individual's well-being. It suggests that the inability to be alone may indicate deeper issues of dependency or fear of self-reflection, pointing to the importance of self-connection and introspection in achieving personal peace and contentment.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a personal development seminar about the importance of self-awareness.
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isnβt the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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