Jean de La Bruyère - Time Quotes

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Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love.

Jean de La Bruyère

One loves wholly but once — the first time: loves that follow are less involuntary.

Jean de La Bruyère

Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

Jean de La Bruyère

We love well only once, the first time. The loves which follow are less involuntary.

Jean de La Bruyère

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Jean de La Bruyère

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Jean de La Bruyère

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food - they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

Jean de La Bruyère