Quote of Jean de La Bruyere - Grief at the absence of a...

Biography - Jean de La Bruyere:

French philosopher and moralist.
Born: 1645 - Died: 1696
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”
Jean de La Bruyere

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin

My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

All about life...

Quotes about happiness:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham

happiness

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

All about happiness...

Jean de La Bruyere also said...

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

time

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
Jean de La Bruyere

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
Jean de La Bruyere

love

The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

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