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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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Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.
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During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
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If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.
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A man who is free and unmarried, if he has some intelligence, can rise above his fortune, mingle in society and meet the best people on an equal footing. This is harder for a married man: marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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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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We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
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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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Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
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A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
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If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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The events we most desire do not happen or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.
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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 are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
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A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.
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The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
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