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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
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French Moralist
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Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
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Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.
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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
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There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
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It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.
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Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less or if you must talk, say little.
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It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.
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For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear she should mercifully choose between the two.
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
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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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We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]
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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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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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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
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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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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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