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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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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Jean de La Bruyere
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We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
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Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
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Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
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Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
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The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]
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