Quote by Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696)

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.