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 Bruyère
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Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
- Jean De La Bruyère
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There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
- Jean De La Bruyère
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