From Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696), French philosopher and moralist, Les Caractères (1687):
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which docs not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
From Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696), French philosopher and moralist, Les Caractères (1687):
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which docs not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696), French philosopherand moralist, Les Caractères (1688):
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”