“There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death.”— Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères (1688), "De l'Homme"Share
“There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.”— Jean de La BruyèreShare
“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”— Jean de La BruyèreShare
“Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.”— Simone WeilShare
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”— Isabel AllendeShare
