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

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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Jean De La Bruyere's Popular Quotes

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

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