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Jean De La Bruyere Inspirational Quotes (246)

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It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.
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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
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The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]
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A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now he is his own successor.
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One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.
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It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.
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Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
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Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.
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We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
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The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
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Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13, 1524 Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
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