Quote of Jean de La Bruyere - If it be true that a...

Biography - Jean de La Bruyere:

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

Quote

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

Note

Source: Les Caractères:

Wikisource - La Bruyère - Les Caractères, Flammarion, 1880 (fr)

Translation

(French, German)

S’il est vrai que l’on soit riche de tout ce dont on n’a pas besoin, un homme fort riche, c’est un homme qui est sage.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

Wenn es wahr ist, daß man reich ist, wenn man nicht viel braucht: ist ein Weiser ein sehr reicher Mann.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Aristotle

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.”
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth comes from virtue.”
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Even for the wise, the desire for glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside.”
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A wise man will be master of his mind. A fool will be its slave.”
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From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own.”
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Quotes about man, all human beings:

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
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Man is the future of man.”
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No man is weak by choice.”
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”
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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

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

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

solitude

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