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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
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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.
Jean de la Bruyere
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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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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Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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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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It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
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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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To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
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Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.
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Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
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If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
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I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
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The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them he prefers that reason alone prevail.
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The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?
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