Jean de la Bruyere
  • There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

  • The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

  • The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  • We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

  • We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.