Jean De La Bruyere

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.

The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune.

The shortest and best ways to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.