Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Criticism, Pleasure

• The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Giving, Pleasure, Exquisite

• There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greed, Soul, Mind

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

• The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pleasure, Sensible, Delicate

• The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Criticism, Pleasure, Fine Things

• The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Desire, Events, Anticipation

• The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Kindness, Finest, Pleasure

• During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wish, Encounters, Sake

• There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pleasure, Glances, Obligation

• If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Cities, Curiosity, Mirth

• A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Want, Pleasure, Private Life

• 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

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