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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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Paris
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When we are young we lay up for old age when we are old we save for death.
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We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
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A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
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A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
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A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.
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We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.
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Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
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Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
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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.
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Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.
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Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities it floats between virtue and vice there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.
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I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.
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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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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
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Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
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