What did Jean de la Bruyere mean by: One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France Copy
+ This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude. Feraz Zeid, June 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Jean de la Bruyere, Capability, Solitude, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
+ A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean de la Bruyere, Party, Spirit, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
+ It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean de la Bruyere, Duty, Ingratitude, Neglect, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
+ A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean de la Bruyere, Great Person, Greatness, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
+ The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it’s to their advantage to help you. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean de la Bruyere, Believe, Work, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
+ I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n’ai jamais d’esprit qu’au bas de l’escalier.] Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean de la Bruyere, Stairs, Wit, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
+ A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean de la Bruyere, Wish, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
+ We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean de la Bruyere, Aggravation, Love, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. - Jean-Jacques Annaud Director · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
