Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Giving, Warning

• Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heart, Two, People

• 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

• 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.

• It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Revenge, Hate, Enemy

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