Jean de La Bruyère Quote

It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat.


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


It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat.

It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat.

It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat.

It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat.