Quote by Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696)

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.