Jean de La Bruyère Quote

It is often shorter and better to yield to others than to endeavor to compel others to adjust themselves to us.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


It is often shorter and better to yield to others than to endeavor to compel others to adjust themselves to us.

It is often shorter and better to yield to others than to endeavor to compel others to adjust themselves to us.

It is often shorter and better to yield to others than to endeavor to compel others to adjust themselves to us.

It is often shorter and better to yield to others than to endeavor to compel others to adjust themselves to us.