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Jean De La Bruyere Inspirational Quotes (246)

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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock something more than intelligence is required to become an author.
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It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
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Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.
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A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.
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There is a false modesty, which is vanity a false glory, which is levity a false grandeur, which is meanness a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
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Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
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As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
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We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
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If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
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It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
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Courtly manners are contagious they are caught at Versailles.
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Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.
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Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
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All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.
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