Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Success

Quotes about: Success

• There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
  [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Two, Way

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

• The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Funny, Success, Humorous

• There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Stupid, Two

• Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Men, Deeds

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