Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Ignorance, Character, Vanity

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Volume II, Chapter XI, 1688.

• The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Practice, Justice, Judging

• Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Duty, Grain, Obliged

• The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Men, Honor

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Strong, Men, Perfection

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Perfection, Understanding

• A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Practice, Justice, Judging

  "Characters", 1688.

• It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Neglect, Duty, Ingratitude

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