Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  All Things, Lawsuit, Property

• Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Loss, Sacrifice, Men

• There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Birth Life And Death, Suffering, Events

• We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Class, Envy

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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