When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end. - Jean de la Bruyere. View more images...

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. - Jean de la Bruyere. View more images...

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. - Jean De La Bruyere. View more images...

They that have lived a single day have lived an age. - Jean De La Bruyere. View more images...