Quotes by Bruyere, Jean De La

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. >>

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and i >>

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician >>

Quotations about Greatness

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biogra >>

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influenc >>

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty >>

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

Bruyere, Jean De La