Jean de LaBruyere Quotes (6 Quotes)

A heap of epithets is poor praise the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

There are but two ways of rising in the world either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

There are some extraordinary fathers who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.