The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]

Jean de la Bruyere

Related Quotes

And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died. [Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]

— Pierre Jean de Beranger

He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.]

— Vicentius Lupanus (Vincent de La Loupe)

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably

— Jean de la Bruyere

Good WritingMindWriting

Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.

— Jean de la Bruyere

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

— Jean de la Bruyere