Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mother, Father, Stupidity

• Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Vanity, Weakness

  "Les Caractères, II". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1688.

• Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mother, Father, May

• Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
  [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Vanity, Weakness

• Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Men, Deeds

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